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“I am never going to have anything more to do with politics or politicians. When this war is over I shall confine myself entirely to writing and painting.”

Politics War Painting Myself
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“Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak, it’s also what it takes to sit down and listen.”
Courage Stand Speak Listen
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“There is always much to be said for not attempting more than you can do and for making a certainty of what you try. But this principle, like others in life and war, has it exceptions.”

Certainty Expectation Principle War
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The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes.

Perfect Middle Control Class
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Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb.

Journey Discourage Climb Progress
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“In the course of my life I have often had to eat my words, and I must confess that I have always found it a wholesome diet.”

Course Confess Life Always
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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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The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.

Ultimate Life Power Survival
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The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
Worse Make Thing Equal
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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 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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“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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Not doing what we love in the name of greed is the very poor management of our lives.

Love Greed Poor Management
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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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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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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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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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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 make war that we may live in peace.
Make War May Peace
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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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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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You will never do anything in the world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

World Courage Quality Honor
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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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Calling someone who trades actively in the market an investor is like calling someone who repeatedly engages in one-night stands a romantic.

Someone Romantic Market Investor
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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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What counts for most people in investing is not how much they know, but rather how realistically they define what they don't know.

Invest People Count Realistic
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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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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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Diversification is a protection against ignorance. It makes very little sense for those who know what they’re doing.

Diversification Ignorance Protection Sense
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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’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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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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I’m not interested in cars and my goal is not to make people envious. Don’t confuse the cost of living with the standard of living.

Envious Goal Cost Living
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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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Life is like a snowball. The important thing is finding wet snow and a really long hill.

Snowball Important Life Long
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You’ve gotta keep control of your time, and you can’t unless you say no. You can’t let people set your agenda in life.

Control Time Agenda People
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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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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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Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing, of just going along, listening to all the things you can't hear, and not bothering.

Value Along Listen Hear
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Wherever they go, and whatever happens to them on the way, in that enchanted place on the top of the forest, a little boy and his Bear will always be playing.

Happen Way Place Forest
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