“If you can get yourself to read 30 minutes a day, you're going to double your income every year.”
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“I read in the newspapers they are going to have 30 minutes of intellectual stuff on television every Monday from 7:30 to 8. to educate America. They couldn't educate America if they started at 6:30.”
— Groucho Marx, book The Groucho Letters
Source: The Groucho Letters
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