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Old 19-April-2008, 03:35 AM
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I'm not so sure. Say you have $10 in a bank account, and live for 1000 years. You don't need new ideas to prosper, just the time you have.
$100 placed at 7 percent interest compounded quarterly for 200 years will increase to more than $100,000,000 — by which time it will be worth nothing.-Robert A. Heinlein
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