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“My idea of absolute happiness is to be in bed on a rainy day, with my blankie, my cat, and my dog.”

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Anne Lamott is an American novelist born on April 10, 1954. Her works are known for their humor, directness, and profound emotional depth, primarily exploring themes of family, faith, and self-discovery. more

“If these laws [in the Bible] belonged to any other ancient culture we would approach them very differently. We need not bother to reject the code of Hammurabi. Presumably it is because Moses is still felt to make some claim on us that this project of discrediting his law is persisted in with such energy. The unscholarly character of the project may derive from the supposed familiarity of the subject.”

Ifs Needs May Stills Character Law Culture Energy Felt Subjects Projects Approach Claims Ancient Code Bother Rejects Familiarity Moses

Author:Marilynne Robinson

“In other words, the market is not a weighing machine, on which the value of each issue is recorded by an exact and impersonal mechanism, in accordance with its specific qualities. Rather should we say that the market is a voting machine, whereon countless individuals register choices which are the product partly of reason and partly of emotion.”

Should Reason Values Choices Individual Emotion Quality Issues Products Machines Voting Mechanism Register Weighing

Book:Security Analysis: Principles and Technique

Source: Security Analysis: Principles and Technique

“Mathematics is ordinarily considered as producing precise and dependable results; but in the stock market the more elaborate and abstruse the mathematics the more uncertain and speculative are the conclusions we draw there from. Whenever calculus is brought in, or higher algebra, you could take it as a warning that the operator was trying to substitute theory for experience, and usually also to give to speculation the deceptive guise of investment.”

“The market is a pendulum that forever swings between unsustainable optimism (which makes stocks too expensive) and unjustified pessimism (which makes them too cheap). The intelligent investor is a realist who sells to optimists and buys from pessimists.”

Forever Optimism Intelligent Sells Expensive Pessimism Investors Swings Optimist Pessimist Realist Pendulums Unjustified

Book:The Intelligent Investor, Rev. Ed

Source: The Intelligent Investor, Rev. Ed

“The memory of the financial community is proverbially and distressingly short.”

Community Memories Investing Financial

Book:Security Analysis: The Classic 1934 Edition

Source: Security Analysis: The Classic 1934 Edition

“I'm the type of person who, if somebody offers me a free meal, I get excited because you never know where your next free meal is going to come from.”

Ifs Knows Persons Next Type Offers Excited Meals

Author:Paloma Faith

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