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David Rabe

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DAVID EINHORN I rooted for the Milwaukee Brewers and its stars, Robin Yount and Paul Molitor. I went to a lot of g...
DAVID EINHORN I've got a fantasy-baseball team with my brother. But I have to admit, he does all the work.
DAVID EINHORN My father and grandfather were businessmen. The family business was Adelphi Paints in New Jersey. Wh...
DAVID EINHORN There's more at risk in what happens in Microsoft than I could ever bet on a poker table.
DAVID EINHORN On my best days, I fancy myself a combination of Dad's persistence/patience and Mom's toughn...
DAVID EINHORN Both poker and investing are games of incomplete information. You have a certain set of facts and yo...
DAVID EINHORN Language itself changes slowly, but the Internet has speeded up the process of those changes so you ...
DAVID CRYSTAL I tolerate lactose like I tolerate people.
LARRY DAVID Mathematics knows no races or geographic boundaries; for mathematics, the cultural world is one coun...
DAVID HILBERT Every spring, this country will be reminded of the Lady from Texas. As trees bloom and flowers carpe...
DAVID MIXNER If you're a reporter, the easiest thing in the world is to get a story. The hardest thing is to ...
DAVID HALBERSTAM I'm a good person, I hope. But I'm never as good as I want to be, never as nice as I want to...
DAVID TENNANT I checked out all types of tobacco trying to find one that would be easiest to live with, I ended up...
DAVID STRATHAIRN A poet could write volumes about diners, because they're so beautiful. They're brightly lit,...
DAVID LYNCH Smoking calms me down. It's enjoyable. I don't want politicians deciding what is exciting in...
DAVID HOCKNEY It is not contrary to reason to prefer the destruction of the whole world to the scratching of my fi...
DAVID HUME Lion sounds that have not grown from the mouse may exude naked power... but cannot convey any wisdom...
DAVID WHYTE The rules of morality are not the conclusion of our reason.
DAVID HUME Mathematics is a game played according to certain simple rules with meaningless marks on paper.
DAVID HILBERT But Dr. Smith says, and I believe it to be a true state of the case, that he himself gave a course o...
DAVID RITTENHOUSE I played hockey in the winter, and then I would play golf in the summer. But I always knew I'd b...
DAVID HEARN