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“This notion of public-school doors being barred to God would have confounded not only the founding fathers but also those who attended American public schools as recently as the early 1960s.”

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William Murchison

William Murchison is a renowned columnist known for his profound thoughts and unique writing style. His exact birth and death dates are unknown. more

“These results add up to perhaps the most important investment lesson of all that can be drawn from this week's market anniversaries: Predicting turns in the market is incredibly difficult to do consistently well. That means that, if your investment strategy going forward is dependent on your anticipating major market turning points, your chances of success are extremely low.”

Ifs Wells Mean Important Turns Difficult Chance Results Week Lessons Majors Lows Strategy Add Investment Investing Dependent Consistently Turning Points Predicting

Author:Mark Hulbert

“It is very hard, if not impossible," he wrote in his study, "to justify active management for most individual, taxable investors, if their goal is to grow wealth." And he said that those who still insist on an actively managed fund are almost certainly "deluding themselves.”

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Author:Mark Hulbert

“Assuming that the future is like the past, you can outperform 80 percent of your fellow investors over the next several decades by investing in an index fund-and doing nothing else. But acquire the discipline to do something even better: become a long-term index fund investor.”

Long Past Next Term Discipline Percent Fellows Assuming Investing Decades Long Term Acquire Fund Investors Doing Nothing Index Funds

Author:Mark Hulbert

“Index funds are the only rational alternative for almost all mutual fund investors.”

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Author:Mark Hulbert

“What is the real origin of my own anger? Is it the ego defending its territory, or is it something that has its source in the desire for the well-being of all?”

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Book:Compassion and Meditation: The Spiritual Dynamic between Buddhism and Christianity

Source: Compassion and Meditation: The Spiritual Dynamic between Buddhism and Christianity

“Few suffer more than those who refuse to forgive themselves.”

Suffering Forgiveness Forgiving Refuse

Author:Mike Norton

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