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“No crime is so great as daring to excel.”

Daring Excel Crime Great
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To write well, express yourself like common people, but think like a wise man. Or, think as wise men do, but speak as the common people do.

Express Common Wise People
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“A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.”

World Before Halfway Around
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I always knew I was going to be rich. I don’t think I ever doubted it for a minute.

Rich Doubt Always Knew
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You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don’t do too many things wrong

Life Things Right Wrong
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I measure success by how many people love me.
Measure Success People Love
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It’s better to hang out with people better than you. Pick out associates whose behavior is better than yours and you’ll drift in that direction.

Associate Behave People Direction
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Widespread fear is your friend as an investor because it serves up bargain purchases.
Fear Investor Bargain Friend
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We must be neither cowardly nor rash but courageous.

Neither Coward Rash Courage
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Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.

Delight Solitude Wild Beast
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Why is it that all those who have become eminent in philosophy, politics, poetry, or the arts are clearly of an atrabilious temperament and some of them to such an extent as to be affected by diseases

Eminent Philosophy Extent Affect
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So smile when you read a headline that says Investors lose as market falls. Edit it in your mind to Disinvestors lose as market falls but investors gain. Though writers often forget this truism, there is a buyer for every seller and what hurts one necessarily helps the other.

Buyer Seller Truism Headline
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It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn't use long, difficult words but rather short, easy words like

Fun Long Difficult Lunch
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Keep all your eggs in one basket, but watch that basket closely.

Basket Eggs Watch Closely
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We believe that a policy of portfolio concentration may well decrease risk if it raises, as it should, both the intensity with which an investor thinks about a business and the comfort-level he must feel with its economic characteristics before buying into it. In stating this opinion, we define risk, using dictionary terms, as “the possibility of loss or injury.

Business Economy Buying Possibility
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I knew when I met you an adventure was going to happen.
Knew Met Adventure Happen
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It’s only when the tide goes out that you learn who has been swimming naked.

Tide Learn Swimming Naked
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Never give up searching for the job that you are passionate about
Passionate Never Job About
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People always ask me where they should go to work, and I always tell them to go to work for whom they admire the most.

People Work Admire Should
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If the person you are talking to doesn't appear to be listening, be patient. It may simply be that he has a small piece of fluff in his ear.

Appear Patient Simply Fluff
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Forecasts may tell you a great deal about the forecaster; they tell you nothing about the future.
Forecast Future Nothing Deal
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Just because an animal is large, it doesn't mean he doesn't want kindness; however big Tigger seems to be, remember that he wants as much kindness as Roo.

Just Animal Large Kindness
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Always watch where you are going. Otherwise, you may step on a piece of the Forest that was left out by mistake.

Always Watch Forest Mistake
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If past history was all that is needed to play the game of money, the richest people would be librarians.

Past History Liberian Richest
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Failing conventionally is the route to go; as a group, lemmings may have a rotten image, but no individual lemming has ever received bad press

Convention Route Group Individual
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The most important quality for an investor is temperament, not intellect. You need a temperament that neither derives great pleasure from being with the crowd or against the crowd.

Pleasure Crowd Intellect Temperament
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And really, it wasn’t much good having anything exciting like floods, if you couldn’t share them with somebody.

Much Good Flood Share
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You shouldn’t own common stocks if a 50% decrease in their value in a short period of time would cause you acute distress.

Common Stock Value Decrease
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I never really mind what people say about me - I am far too unconventional and far too dedicated to being true to myself to let other people's disdain or nastiness upset me for long.

Disdain People True Mind
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Diamonds are a girl's best friend, and dogs are a man's best friend. Now you know which sex has more sense.

Diamond Dog Sex Friend
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Getting divorced just because you don't love a man is almost as silly as getting married just because you do.

Love Divorce Married Man
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Most folks are about as happy as they make their minds up to be.

Most Folk Happy Mind
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The truth has to be melted out of our stubborn lives by suffering. Nothing speaks the truth, nothing tells us how things really are, nothing forces us to know what we do not want to know except pain. And this is how the gods declare their love.

Truth Speak. Force Declare
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I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.

Married Sex Nothing Always
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No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.

Man Good Enough Memory
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But still the block of Vengeance firm doth stand, and Fate, as swordsmith, hammers blow on blow.

Block Doth Stand Fath
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A man in love is incomplete until he has married. Then he's finished.

Man Love Incomplete Married
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So with truth - there is a certain moment when one can say, this is the truth and here I put a dot, a stop, and I go to another thing. A judge has to put an end to a deliberation. But for a historian, there's never an end to the past. It can go on and on and on.

Truth Certain Moment Judge
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And now it goes as it goes and where it ends is Fate. And neither by singeing flesh nor tipping cups of wine nor shedding burning tears can you enchant away the rigid Fury.

Fate Wine Tear Rigid
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Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.
Common People Best Reason
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When the black and mortal blood of man has fallen to the ground ... who then can sing spells to call it back again?

Black Mortal Blood Ground
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I don't think that when Zionism began there was a claim that we were losing - even in part - our capacity to contribute to other peoples.

Think Claim Part Other
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He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.

Right Criticize Heart Help
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Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people can be engaged in.

Subject Dictate System Engage
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Courage! Suffering, when it climbs highest, lasts not long.

Courage Climb Last Long
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I am rather inclined to silence, and whether that be wise or not, it is at least more unusual nowadays to find a man who can hold his tongue than to find one who cannot.

Rather Silence Wise Tongue
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Words are the physicians of a mind diseased.
Word Are Mind Disease
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Adhere to your purpose and you will soon feel as well as you ever did. On the contrary, if you falter, and give up, you will lose the power of keeping any resolution, and will regret it all your life.

Purpose Feel Power Regret
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The burning gaze of a young woman, such as hath tasted man, shall not escape me; for I have a spirit keen to mark these things.

Gaze Young Escape Mark
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It is an easy thing for one whose foot is on the outside of calamity to give advice and to rebuke the sufferer.

Easy Foot Calamity Advice
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