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Sure is a cheerful color. Guess I’ll have to get used to it.

Sure Cheerful Color Guess
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.

Business World Rearview Mirror
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But, of course, it isn't really Good-bye, because the Forest will always be there... and anybody who is Friendly with Bears can find it.

Course Forest Always Bear
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Games are won by players who focus on the playing field –- not by those whose eyes are glued to the scoreboard.

Game Focus Won Scoreboard
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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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When a management with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a reputation for bad economics, it is the reputation of the business that remains intact.

Business Reputation Management Brilliance
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In the long run managements stressing accounting appearance over economic substance usually achieve little of either.

Accounting Economics Management Appearance
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If each of us hires people who are smaller than we are, we shall become a company of dwarfs. But, if each of us hires people who are bigger than we are, we shall become a company of giants.

Hire Dwarf Company People
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Being jealous of a beautiful woman is not going to make you more beautiful.
Being Jealous Beautiful Woman
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I call everyone 'Darling' because I can't remember their names.

Darling Name Everyone Because
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You must be independent and able to do for yourself. Then you do not have to marry a rich man; you can marry a poor one. And if it is wrong, you can go.

Independent Marry Rich Poor
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Any woman who diets all the time can't help but be grouchy. Nobody can be amusing or entertaining on a diet.
Woman Amusing Diet Time
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I am a marvelous housekeeper. Every time I leave a man I keep his house.

House Time Keep Marvelous
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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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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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I like a mannish man: a man who knows how to talk to and treat a woman - not just a man with muscles.

Man Muscle Talk Like
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I deeply respect literature and expect to gain insight from a book and to identify emotionally with its characters. I therefore avoid reading suspense novels or science fiction.

Respect Expect Novel Fiction
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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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Unjustly men hate death, which is the greatest defence against their many ills.

Unjustly Hate Death Against
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We always knew how to honor fallen soldiers. They were killed for our sake, they went out on our mission. But how are we to mourn a random man killed in a terrorist attack while sitting in a cafe? How do you mourn a housewife who got on a bus and never returned?

Man You Random Honor
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I don’t like that man. I must get to know him better.

Like Man Know Better
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Whoever is just willingly and without compulsion will not lack happiness; he will never be utterly destroyed.

Just Lack Utter Destroy
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Respect the altar of Justice and do not, looking to profit, dishonor it by spurning with godless foot; for punishment will come upon you.

Respect Altar Profit Foot
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We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.

Complain Thorn Can Rose
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God planteth in mortal men the cause of sin whensoever he wills utterly to destroy a house.

God Mortal Cause Destroy
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Husbands are like fires - they go out when unattended.
Husbands Attention Fire They
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I believe in large families: every woman should have at least three husbands.

Large Family Woman Husband
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I’m a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn’t have the heart to let him down.

Success Today Friend Heart
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A girl must marry for love - and keep on marrying until she finds it.

Girl Marry Love Find
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Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.

Come Wait Left Hustle
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It's never as easy to keep your own spouse happy as it is to make someone else's spouse happy.

Easy Keep Spouse Happy
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A phantom queen through all the house shall rove; and all the joy doth flee the sculptured forms of beauty once did give; and in the penury of eyes that live, all Aphrodite's grace is lost in empty space.

Queen Beauty Penury Grace
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It is not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath.

Oath Make Believe Man
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Out of respect, a man must veil his words when talking with a woman, but with a man he can frankly say whatever's on his mind.

Respect Veil Frankly Mind
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This is a world of compensations; and he who would be no slave, must consent to have no slave. Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves; and, under a just God, can not long retain it.

World Slave Freedom Deserve
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