A Quote by Irving Kahn
Don't depend on recent or current figures to forecast future prices; remember that many others knew them before you did
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I’m really alive! he thought. I never knew it before, or if I did I don’t remember!
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I used to love 'The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe,' and I can still remember listening to them before I would fall asleep. I can remember the first ten minutes of the book perfectly, but whether I knew the rest of it was slightly more dicey.
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