Some years ago never mind how long precisely having little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest me on shore, I thought I would sail about a little and see the watery part of the world.

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And there have been others on the Republican side or the conservative side who said no matter how much money you spend, nothing makes a difference, so let's just blow up the public school systems.

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Yes, there's nothing slick about Money - no fancy sets, no special effects and no glamorous characters.

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But I was just 24, I knew nothing and no one, had no money and no contacts, and the invention of the Web was still several years away.

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Mr Kotter, an expert on leadership at Harvard Business School, based his book almost exclusively on the late Konosuke Matsushita, a self-effacing entrepreneur who, with no education, no money and no apparent connections, somehow managed to build the world's biggest electronics firm from nothing, beginning in the 1920s.

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And I learned early on that no matter how much money you pour into the schools, nothing replaces the love and attention and occasional scoldings from a parent. (Applause.) I learned as a community organizer that no government program can substitute for the caring and passion of neighbors and communities.

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Obama had nothing to do with the loan, or non-loan, because no money has changed hands.

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They lend some of it right back to the Federal Reserve, which pays them interest, remember, on the money that was just created out of nothing and given to the banks for no interest.

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The idea of simply buying success and making money from nothing is one that they want to keep alive, but there is still no substitute for a targeted campaign working alongside a well designed application.

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