<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><rss xmlns:itunes="http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd" version="2.0"><channel><title>Potent Quotables</title><description>List of quotations that are insightful, thoughtful, and timeless.</description><managingEditor>noreply@blogger.com (Profit Prophet)</managingEditor><pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2026 20:00:46 -0500</pubDate><generator>Blogger http://www.blogger.com</generator><openSearch:totalResults xmlns:openSearch="http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/">5037</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex xmlns:openSearch="http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/">1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage xmlns:openSearch="http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/">25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><link>http://wordecho.blogspot.com/</link><language>en-us</language><item><title>Other People's Money</title><link>http://wordecho.blogspot.com/2026/04/other-peoples-money.html</link><category>Eventually</category><category>Money</category><category>People</category><category>Problem</category><category>Run Out</category><category>Socialism</category><author>noreply@blogger.com (Profit Prophet)</author><pubDate>Wed, 1 Apr 2026 05:00:00 -0500</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5996403905677358114.post-4443361775860044725</guid><description>“The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.” &lt;br&gt;
   --Margaret Thatcher
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   --Scott Adams
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   --Jeffrey Fry
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   --Unknown
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   --Jeffrey Fry
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  --Baroque Gato
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   --Thomas Jefferson
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   --Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. 
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   --Genghis Khan
</description><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total></item><item><title>Make Mistakes</title><link>http://wordecho.blogspot.com/2024/10/make-mistakes.html</link><category>Any Man</category><category>Error</category><category>Idiot</category><category>Make</category><category>Mistakes</category><category>Only</category><category>Persists</category><author>noreply@blogger.com (Profit Prophet)</author><pubDate>Sat, 12 Oct 2024 05:00:00 -0500</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5996403905677358114.post-2393714127410793016</guid><description>“Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error.”&lt;br&gt;
   --Marcus Tullius Cicero
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   --Plato
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--Jeffrey Fry</description><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total></item><item><title>Heaviest Things</title><link>http://wordecho.blogspot.com/2024/08/heaviest-things.html</link><category>Decisions</category><category>Gold</category><category>Heaviest</category><category>In Life</category><category>Iron</category><category>Not Making</category><category>Reason</category><category>Stressed</category><category>Things</category><category>To Make</category><category>Unmade</category><author>noreply@blogger.com (Profit Prophet)</author><pubDate>Sun, 11 Aug 2024 05:00:00 -0500</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5996403905677358114.post-981282194281257486</guid><description>“The heaviest things in life aren’t iron and gold but unmade decisions. The reason you are stressed is because you have decisions to make and you are not making them.” &lt;br&gt;
   --Unknown
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   --Elon Musk
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   --Unknown
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   --Jeffrey Fry
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   --Denzel Washington
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   --Plato
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   --Immanuel Kant
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--Lucius Annaeus Seneca&lt;br /&gt;
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   --Friedrich August von Hayek
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   --Jeffrey Fry
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   --Darrell Neely
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   --Franz Kafka
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   --Martin Luther King, Jr.
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