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My Wealth Builder (Free subscription) | 08/04/2008
"The rich are different from you and me." -- F. Scott Fitzgerald "Yes, they have more money." -- Ernest Hemingway Recently, I had an epiphany about becoming wealthy. Building wealth consists of two different activities : 1) creating and accumulating wealth and 2) maintaining wealth. The first part has to be achieved by an individual through their own actions. The second part can be handled by professionals...
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Dr. Housing Bubble Blog (Free subscription) | 08/01/2008
“Americans, while occasionally willing to be serfs, have always been obstinate about being peasantry.” - F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby The Great Gatsby was published in 1925 and chronicles the Jazz Age and captures some of the excess of the roaring 20s. F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote the novel during a time in which there was booming [...] Related Posts: ■ Bank Failure: IndyMac Bank. Lessons from...
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IdeaFestival (Free subscription) | 07/31/2008
Responding in the transcript of a SEED salon featuring Tom Wolfe and the founder of The Law and Neuroscience Project, Michael Gazzaniga, to a question on the state of neuroscience, Wolfe recounts what another scientist had to say on the...
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Free Money Finance (Free subscription) | 07/29/2008
...and when I say "rich", I mean REALLY rich. Check out this from the UK: "The rich," wrote F Scott Fitzgerald, "are different from you and me." So when they want more living space but they don't want to move...
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Quotes of the Day (Free subscription) | 07/26/2008
"In a real dark night of the soul it is always three o'clock in the morning, day after day."
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HubArts.com (Free subscription) | 07/25/2008
I think it was F. Scott Fitzgerald who said something about it being a mark of intelligence if one could hold two contradictory ideas at the same time. I'll try it anyway with the current dustup between the Globe's Geoff...
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Townhall.com (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
"The rich are different from you and me," F. Scott Fitzgerald famously wrote. Well, so are the Democratic elites, apparently.The DNC has set out some pretty tough eco-standards for those catering the parties hosted by...
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Valleywag (Free subscription) | 07/19/2008
As F. Scott Fitzgerald once quipped, "The rich are different than you and me." Case in point here is this pet cruising on Echo Lake in the Sierras, apparently one of six privately cloned in South... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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Draven99's Musings (Free subscription) | 07/14/2008
David Fincher is following up his excursion into the real world procedural (the excellent Zodiac ) with a tale that is much more fantastical bent. It is The Curious Case of Benjamin Button , based on the F. Scott Fitzgerald tale from the 1920's. This film reunites Fincher with Brad Pitt, who previously starred in a pair of Fincher helmed flicks with Seven and Fight Club . The trailer is rather beuatiful,...
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John Baker's Blog (Free subscription) | 07/13/2008
The BBC reports on McCain’s and Obama’s U-turns now they’re secure nominations for their respective parties. Why are politicians such ugly people? * “I write one page of masterpiece to ninety one pages of shit,” Hemingway confided to F. Scott Fitzgerald in 1934. “I try to put the shit in the wastebasket.” * Gaële Chojnowicz writes about Carson McCullers: Walter [...]
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M O B J E C T I V I S T (Free subscription) | 07/13/2008
Shorter post: Enigma Solved "We must accept finite disappointment, but we must never lose infinite hope." -- Martin Luther King Jr. "Reserving judgments is a matter of infinite hope." -- F. Scott Fitzgerald in The Great Gatsby We have on our hands a huge swindle pertaining to the reserve growth analysis promulgated by USGS geologists. In turns, the establishment has labeled the fossil fuel reserve...
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the field negro (Free subscription) | 07/01/2008
"I decided I won't wear that pin on my chest... Instead, I'm going to try to tell the American people what I believe will make this country great, and hopefully that will be a testament to my patriotism." I see that you are trying to make F. Scott Fitzgerald a liar huh "O" man? I guess you are trying to show that there are second acts in American lives. Wow, who would have known? Here you are on your...