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Warren Buffett
“There are a few investment managers, of course, who are very good—though in the short run, it’s difficult to determine whether a great record
Spinster author Kate Bollock loves to extoll virtues of singlehood. She has been in a relationship for 3 years, since she signed her book
jazz pianist Myra Melford works based on literature
Instead, she’s created works that take inspiration from the essay “The Myth of Sisyphus” by Albert Camus and the novel “The Woman in the
Gordy Gronkowski, father of 3 NFL players
For him, games are not just games. “They are everything,” he says. They are morality plays, tests of will and feats of strength, definers
said Ronald Mincy of Columbia University’s School of Social Work. “It’s now the case that men now have lower real earnings than their fathers,
Why Beethoven matters
I told him (approximately), “You must know Beethoven’s music because no one has ever said anything deeper about what it means to be human,
Atlas Shrugged sales
Did you know…? Atlas Shrugged Average Annual Penguin (U.S.) Paperback Gross Sales by Decade (Not including purchases by ARI) 1980’s (Average 1984–1989): 74,3001990’s (Average
Lee Kuan Yew, founder of modern Singapore
Winners at the Night at the Apollo
Billie Holiday, age 19 ¨ 1934 Pearl Bailey, age 16 ¨ 1934 Ella Fitzgerald, age 17 ¨ 1934 Sarah Vaughan, age 18 ¨ 1942