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“It is the long-term investor...who will in practice come in for the most criticism... For it is the essence of his behavior that he should be eccentric, unconventional, and rash in the eyes of average opinion”

Should Long Eye Term Opinion Practice Behavior Criticism Essence Investing Average Long Term Investors Eccentric Unconventional

Author:John Maynard Keynes

“His response is more than sensible. It reflects his understanding that evens unfold as a refelction of precise karmic order and that a benevolent response in all circumstances will be the most healing one. I think he is so universally admired becuase he exemplifies by his behavior the truth that the essence of natural mind, unclouded by greed or anger or delusion, is that of peace.”

Thinking Mind Order Peace Understanding Natural Healing Circumstances Behavior Essence Response Greed Delusion Sensible Precise Benevolent

Author:Sylvia Boorstein

“Just as we're always told that schoolyard bullies are actually deeply insecure, liberals rationalize their own ferocious behavior by claiming to have been wounded somehow. What about the little guy our poor, insecure bully is beating the living daylights out of? How's his self-esteem coming along? That is the essence of liberals: They viciously attack everyone else, while wailing that they are the victims.”

Littles Has Beens Self Guy Poor Self Esteem Behavior Essence Victim Esteem Wounded Insecure Bully Daylight Rationalize Wailing

Author:Ann Coulter

“The essence of illness is the freezing of behavior into unalterable and insatiable patterns.”

Behavior Essence Patterns Illness Insatiable Freezing

Book:Newurotic Distortion of the Creative Process

Source: Newurotic Distortion of the Creative Process

“All a child's life depends on the ideal it has of its parents. Destroy that and everything goes — morals, behaviour, everything. Absolute trust in some one else is the essence of education.”

Children Parent Moral Depends Behavior Ideals Essence Absolutes

Author:E. M. Forster

“Our names are labels, plainly printed on the bottled essence of our past behavior.”

Past Names Integrity Behavior Ethics Essence Labels Our Past Printed

Book:Afterthoughts

Source: Afterthoughts