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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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“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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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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“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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.

Promise Remember Believe Strong
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Buy a stock the way you would buy a house. Understand and like it such that you’d be content to own it in the absence of any market.

Stock Understand Market Content
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What an investor needs is the ability to correctly evaluate selected businesses. Note that word selected: You don't have to be an expert on every company, or even many. You only have to be able to evaluate companies within your circle of competence. The size of that circle is not very important; knowing its boundaries, however, is vital.

Competence Boundary Ability Investor
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Stocks of companies selling commodity-like products should come with a warning label: ‘Competition may prove hazardous to human wealth.’

Stock Wealth Woman Commodity
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I think we dream so we don’t have to be apart for so long. If we’re in each other’s dreams, we can be together all the time.

Dream Long Together Time
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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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It’s only when the tide goes out that you learn who has been swimming naked.

Tide Learn Swimming Naked
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I’ve seen more people fail because of liquor and leverage – leverage being borrowed money. You really don’t need leverage in this world much. If you’re smart, you’re going to make a lot of money without borrowing.

Leverage Money Borrow Fail
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Promise me you'll never forget me because if I thought you would, I'd never leave.

Promise Forget Thought Leave
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There comes a time when you ought to start doing what you want. Take a job that you love. You will jump out of bed in the morning. I think you are out of your mind if you keep taking jobs that you don’t like because you think it will look good on your resume. Isn’t that a little like saving up sex for your old age?

Mind Sex Saving Resume
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One of the advantages of being disorganized is that one is always having surprising discoveries.

Advantage Being Always Discover
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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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I'm not lost for I know where I am. But however, where I am may be lost.

Lost Know Where However
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I used to believe in forever, but forever's too good to be true
Believe Forever Good True
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Tell me who your heroes are and I’ll tell you how you’ll turn out to be.

Heroes Turn Who Tell
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If your employees, including your CEO, wish to give to their alma maters or other institutions to which they feel a personal attachment, we believe they should use their own money, not yours.

Money Institution Alma Employee
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Sometimes, if you stand on the bottom rail of a bridge and lean over to watch the river slipping slowly away beneath you, you will suddenly know everything there is to be known.

Stand Bridge Bottom Beneath
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If there ever comes a day when we can't be together, keep me in your heart. I'll stay there forever.
Come Together Keep Heart
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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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Pay attention to where you are going because without meaning you might get nowhere.

Pay Where Without Might
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It is hard to be brave, when you're only a Very Small Animal.

Hard Brave Very Small
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