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“One ought never to turn one’s back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!”

Danger Prompt Never Away
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But neither can you condemn nor justify and yet be extraordinarily alive as you walk on. You can never invite the wind but you must leave the window open.

Justify Alive Invite Wind
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Its like a finger pointing away to the moon. Don’t concentrate on the finger or you will miss all that heavenly glory

Finger Away Moon Glory
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Do not allow negative thoughts to enter your mind for they are the weeds that strangle confidence.

Allow Negative Weed Mind
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It is not a shame to be knocked down by other people. The important thing is to ask when you’re being knocked down, ‘Why am I being knocked down?’ If a person can reflect in this way, then there is ho

Shame Knock Down Reflect
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“One ought never to turn one’s back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!”

Danger Reduce Double Run
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You either get the point of Africa or you don't. What draws me back year after year is that it's like seeing the world with the lid off.

Point Africa World Draw
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When you’re a visitor to a city, you like to hurry up the habits, lay down a pattern, gain predictability in place of roots.

City Habit Pattern Gain
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Excellence is never an accident. It is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, and intelligent execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives – choice, not chance, determines your destiny.

Accident Result Intention Destiny
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Good habits formed at youth make all the difference.
Good Form Youth Habit
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“One ought never to turn one’s back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce t

Never Danger Prompt Flinch
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“The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.”
Look Forward Likely Farther
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“You have enemies? Good. It means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.”

Enemy Good Something Life
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“If you’re going through hell, keep going.”

Hell Going Keep You
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“There is only one duty, only one safe course, and that is to try to be right and not to fear to do or say what you believe to be right.”

Duty Safe Right Fear
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“If you have an important point to make, don’t try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time-a tremendous whack.”

Important Point Clever Driver
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“Do not let spacious plans for a new world divert your energies from saving what is left of the old.”

Plans Spacious Energy Save
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“I may be drunk, miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly.”

Drunk Morning Sobber Ugly
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Writing a book is an adventure. To begin with it is a toy then an amusement. Then it becomes a mistress, and then it becomes a master, and then it becomes a tyrant and, in the last stage, just as you are about to be reconciled to your servitude, you kill the monster and fling him to the public.

Master Monster Reconcile Book
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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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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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If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.”
Regulation Destroy Respect Law
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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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“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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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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Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.

Price Pay Value Get
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The most important thing to do if you find yourself in a hole is to stop digging.

Important Yourself Hole Digging
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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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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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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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Risk comes from not knowing what you’re doing.
Risk Come What Know
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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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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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If you don’t find a way to make money while you sleep, you will work until you die.

Money Make Sleep Work
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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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Widespread fear is your friend as an investor because it serves up bargain purchases.
Fear Investor Bargain Friend
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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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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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You can't stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.

Stay Forest Come Them
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Weeds are flowers, too, once you get to know them.

Weed Flower Once Know
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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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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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