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The proof that you know something is that you are able to teach it.
Proof Know Able Teach
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The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.

Root Bitter Fruit Sweet
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“In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.”

Precious Truth Wartime Should
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The society that loses its grip on the past is in danger, for it produces men who know nothing but the present, and who are not aware that life had been, and could be, different from what it is.

Grip Danger Present Aware
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“There are two things that are more difficult than making an after-dinner speech: climbing a wall which is leaning toward you and kissing a girl who is leaning away from you.”

Difficult Climbing Leaning Wall
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The true and the approximately true are apprehended by the same faculty; it may also be noted that men have a sufficient natural instinct for what is true, and usually do arrive at the truth. Hence the man who makes a good guess at truth is likely to make a good guess at probabilities.

Approximate Apprehend Sufficient Guess
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This is the reason why mothers are more devoted to their children than fathers: it is that they suffer more in giving them birth and are more certain that they are their own.

Reason Mother Devote Children
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“I am certainly not one of those who need to be prodded. In fact, if anything, I am the prod.”

Certain Prodded Those Anything
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“We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out.”

Slaves Words Slip Masters
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Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.

Children Honor Produce Educate
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Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.
Nothing Life Shot Result
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To be conscious that we are perceiving or thinking is to be conscious of our own existence.

Conscious Perceive Own Existence
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“Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning.”

Advance Thinking Worrying Planning
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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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“I always seem to get inspiration and renewed vitality by contact with this great novel land of yours which sticks up out of the Atlantic.”

Inspiration Renewed Vitality Atlantic
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We are stripped bare by the curse of plenty.
Stripped Curse Plenty Bare
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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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The difference between successful people and really successful people is that really successful people say no to almost everything.

Successful People Almost Everything
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It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you’ll do things differently.

Build Reputation Think Different
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Money is not everything. Make sure you earn a lot before speaking such nonsense.
Money Earn Speaking Nonsense
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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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It’s far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price.

Better Wonderful Fair Price
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I don’t look to jump over 7-foot bars: I look around for 1-foot bars that I can step over.

Look Jump Foot Bars
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Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.

Chain Habit Light Felt
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I buy expensive suits. They just look cheap on me.

Expensive Look Cheap Suit
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If you’re in the luckiest one percent of humanity, you owe it to the rest of humanity to think about the other 99 percent.

Luckiest Humanity Percent Owe
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You don't need to be a rocket scientist. Investing is not a game where the guy with the 160 IQ beats the guy with 130 IQ.

Scientist Game Invest Beat
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Only when the tide goes out to do you discover who’s been swimming naked.

Tide Discover Naked When
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Be fearful when others are greedy and greedy when others are fearful.

Fearful Greed Fear Others
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I measure success by how many people love me.
Measure Success People Love
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Help tomorrow, act today. “Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

Help Today Someone Planted
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We simply attempt to be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful.

Fearful Greed Simple Attempt
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The chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.

Chain Habit Heavy Broken
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Someone’s sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.
Shade Today Tree Plant
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You can’t make a good deal with a bad person.

Can't Make Deal Person
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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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Whether we’re talking about socks or stocks, I like buying quality merchandise when it is marked down.

Stock Buying Quality Marked
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No matter how great the talent or efforts, some things just take time. You can’t produce a baby in one month by getting nine women pregnant.

Great Talent Effort Woman
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Smart doesn't always equal rational. To be a successful investor you must divorce yourself from the fears and greed of the people around you, although it is almost impossible.

Smart Investor Greed People
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Opportunities come infrequently. When it rains gold, put out the bucket, not the thimble.

Opportunity Rain Thimble Gold
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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 live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not breaths; in feelings, not in figures on a dial. We should count time by heart throbs. He most lives who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best.

Live Deed Breath Figure
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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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“If you aren’t willing to own a stock for ten years, don’t even think about owning it for ten minutes”

Stock Willing Owning Years
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Only buy something that you’d be perfectly happy to hold if the market shut down for 10 years.

Something Perfectly Market Shutdown
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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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Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love.
Love Wicked Obey Fear
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Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit.

Wish Friend Work Fruit
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When we own portions of outstanding businesses with outstanding managements, our favorite holding period is forever.

Portions Business Outstanding Management
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