Just old age. It's the only disease, Mr. Thompson, you don't look forward to being cured of.

Citizen Kane

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Citizen Kane. Directed by Orson Welles. RKO Radio Pictures/Mercury Productions, 1941.

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The stuff that dreams are made of.

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The Maltese Falcon. Directed by John Huston, Warner Bros., 1941.

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But this long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead.

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Keynes, John Maynard. A Tract on Monetary Reform. MacMillan and Co., 1924, p. 80.

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Keynes, John Maynard. "A Tract on Monetary Reform (1923)." The Essential Keynes, edited by Robert Skidelsky. Penguin, 2016.

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What is morality in any given time or place? It is what the majority then and there happen to like, and immorality is what they dislike.

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Whitehead, Alfred North. Dialogues of Alfred North Whitehead, edited by Lucien Price. David. R. Godine, 2008, ch. 22. Originally from dialogue with Lucien Price, 30 Aug. 1941.

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We're adding a little something to this month's sales contest. As you all know first prize is a Cadillac Eldorado, anybody want to see second prize? Second prize is a set of steak knives. Third prize is you're fired.