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“Historically, the stock market is like a gambling casino with the odds in your favor. Over the long pull, stocks are given something like nine and a half to ten percent compounded per year. The banks have probably given you something in the order of four to five.”

Years Long Order Given Half Five Four Ten Percent Investing Favors Nine Gambling Odds Casinos

Author:Burton Malkiel

“The more I see of the country, the less I feel I know about it. There is a saying that after five years in the north every man is an expert; after ten years, a novice.”

Knows Men Feels Years Country Five Ten Every Man Experts Five Years Novices

Author:Pierre Berton

“Stockbrokers aren't too interested in a stock you can sit there for five years with.”

Years Values Five Investing Five Years Stockbrokers

Author:Walter Schloss

“That other saying, I'm a part of all that I have met, I think that would have to begin with my wonderful parents back in Atlanta when I was a youngster five years old I was tongue tied.”

Thinking Years Parent Five Wonderful Mets Tongue Five Years Tied Youngsters Atlanta Five Year Olds Tongue Tied Wonderful Parents

Book:Tuned to Baseball

Source: Tuned to Baseball

“Unity in a Movement situation can be overrated. If you were the Establishment, which would you rather see coming in the door: one lion or five hundred mice?”

Ifs Situation Five Doors Movement Hundred Unity Activism Lions Establishment Mice Overrated

Author:Florynce Kennedy

“The things men come to eat when they are alone are, I suppose, not much stranger than the men themselves.... A writer years ago told me of living for five months on hen mash.”

Men Years Five He Man Months Solitude Eating Years Ago Stranger Hens

Book:The Art of Eating

Source: The Art of Eating

“Leaves glowing in the sun, zealous hum of bumblebees, From afar, from somewhere beyond the river, echoes of lingering voices And the unhurried sounds of a hammer gave joy not only to me. Before the five senses were opened, and earlier than any beginning They waited, ready, for all those who would call themselves mortals, So that they might praise, as I do, life, that is, happiness.”

Might Joy Sound Voice Sun Five Ready Rivers Praise Senses Mortals Echoes Hammers Glowing Afar Lingering Zealous Five Senses Bumblebees

Author:Czeslaw Milosz

“Conquest, tyranny, treachery, and the clash of cultures bring about corrupt societies, and so does old age. Sometimes the five faces of corruption are visible at the same time.”

Doe Sometimes Age Faces Culture Five Corruption Tyranny Old Age Visible Conquest Clash Treachery Corrupt Society

Book:The Corrupt Society: From Ancient Greece to Present-Day America

Source: The Corrupt Society: From Ancient Greece to Present-Day America

“I was able to afford a car that didn't break down every five minutes.”

Able Break Five Minutes Car Breaking Down Five Minutes

Author:Megan Martha White

“If I could summarize my suggestions to parents over the past twenty-five years it would be: worry less, criticize less, preach less, listen more, have more fun, be more honest with your own feelings, develop your own joys and friendships, and don't sweat the small stuff (which is nearly everything). The goal is not to be a perfect parent, because no such thing exists. The hope is to be a good enough parent so that your child leaves home a responsible adult who can take care of him or herself.”

“there is no yesterday or tomorrow; there is only this moment. Twenty-four hours a day. Seven days a week. Three hundred sixty-five days a year.”

Years Moments Three Hours Five Four Week Tomorrow Hundred Twenties Seven Yesterday Sixty Seven Days

Author:Philip Toshio Sudo

“A child should be allowed to take as long as she needs for knowing everything about herself, which is the same as learning to be herself. Even twenty-five years if necessary, or even forever. And it wouldn't matter if doing things got delayed, because nothing is really important but being oneself.”

Ifs Needs Should Years Children Long Important Matter Forever Knowing Five Twenties Oneself Five Years Twenty Five Delayed Knowing Everything

Author:Laura Riding

“The gross elements are earth, water, air and fire, with the fifth being space. Each particle of the body is made up of these five elements, which are manifested in different colors. In their true quality, space is blue light, water is white, earth is yellow, fire is red, and air is green.”

Source: Boundless Healing: Medittion Exercises to Enlighten the Mind and Heal the Body

“So many of the wars in history, thousands and thousands of them for the past five, six, seven thousand years, have been related to differences in Truth claims. If we can evolve beyond that problem, then I think there's some chance that we could retire the whole institution of war and begin to focus on the peaceful evolution of humanity.”

“Today, any action anywhere on earth has an immediate repercussion on all five continents. News of a victory of the Eastern armies in Morocco or Shanghai travels instantly, thanks to modern means of communication, to all Eastern peoples and fills them with enthusiasm and faith. This phenomenon is, of course, unprecedented in the history of man.”

“If five years from now we solve the access problem, but what we're hearing is all encrypted, I'll probably, if I'm still here, be talking about that in a very different way: the objective is the same. The objective is for us to get those conversations whether they're by an alligator clip or ones and zeros. Whoever they are, whatever they are, I need them.”

Ifs Way Needs Years Stills Different Problem Talking Five Internet Conversation Hearing Solve Access Objectives Different Ways Five Years Free Speech Clip Alligators

Author:Louis J. Freeh

“In Turkey it was always 1952, in Malaysia 1937; Afghanistan was 1910 and Bolivia 1949. It is 20 years ago in the Soviet Union, 10 in Norway, five in France. It is always last year in Australia and next week in Japan.”

Years Lasts Next Five Week Internet Years Ago Unions France Japan Australia Afghanistan Soviet Free Speech Last Year Soviet Union Turkeys Next Week Norway Malaysia Bolivia

Book:The Lower River

Source: The Lower River

“Loyalty is dead, the experts proclaim, and the statistics seem to bear them out. On average, U.S. corporations now lose half their customers in five years, half their employees in four, and half their investors in less than one. We seem to face a future in which the only business relationships will be opportunistic transactions between virtual strangers.”

Years Seems Faces Loses Half Five Four Bears Average Stranger Customers Loyalty Corporations Experts Five Years Employee Statistics Investors Transactions Business Relationship

Author:Fred Reichheld

“I've had a lot of experience in independent film, and about how to choose. You've got to be very discerning about where you put your five bucks, and where you cut and what you don't cut.”

Film Five Cutting Independent Bucks Independent Film Discerning

Author:Ethan Hawke

“Men have discovered their distinctive virtues and vices through grappling with the perennial dilemmas and demands of love, courage, pride, family, and country-the five paths whose proper ordering gives us the key to the secret of happiness for a man.”

Men Giving Country Secret Virtue Path Five Pride Keys Demand Vices Manhood Masculine Dilemma Distinctive Grappling Courage To Love

Author:Waller R Newell

“Sixty eight percent of Republicans don't believe in evolution. On the other hand, only five percent of monkeys believe in Republicans.”

Believe Hands Five Evolution Republican Percent Don't Believe Eight Sixty Monkeys

Author:Stephen Colbert

“Five days a week my body is a temple; the other two, it's an amusement park.”

Two Body Five Week Parks Temples Amusement Amusement Parks Body Is A Temple

Author:Jerry Doyle

“When I was at Manchester, where there was a modern swimming pool, I was looked on as a great man, not for so trivial a reason as being an FRS, but because I used to dive off a five-metre board.”

Men Reason Used Five Modern Boards Great Men Swimming Pool Manchester Swimming Pool

Author:Louis J. Mordell

“A stray, unthought-of five minutes may contain the event of a life, and this all-important moment - who can tell when it will be upon us?”

May Important Moments Five Minutes Events Five Minutes Important Moments

Author:Dean Alford

“The Jewish usurers are fast-rooted even in the smallest villages, and if they lend five gulden they require a security of six times as much. They charge interest, upon interest, and upon this again interest, so that the poor man loses everything that he owns.”

Ifs Men Interest Loses Poor Five Security Six Village Rooted Smallest Poor Man

Author:Desiderius Erasmus

“In all the known history of Mankind, advances have been made primarily in physical technology; in the capacity of handling the inanimate world about Man. Control of self and society has been left to to chance or to the vague gropings of intuitive ethical systems based on inspiration and emotion. As a result no culture of greater stability than about fifty-five percent has ever existed, and these only as the result of great human misery.”

Source: The foundation trilogy: three classics of science fiction

“A good Dianetic auditor can take a broken-down, sorrow-drenched lady of thirty-eight and knock out her past periods of physical and mental pain and have on his hands somebody who appears to be twenty-five-and a bright, cheerful twenty-five at that.”

Hands Pain Past Five Broken Periods Sorrow Twenties Eight Thirty Cheerful Twenty Five Broken Down Auditors Thirty Eight Mental Pain

Book:Self Analysis

Source: Self Analysis

“If you want something new in your life, you have to make space for it. I mean that psychologically as well as physically. Take a look at your closet. If you have the kind of closet where you can't fit another thing in there, that might be the reason you don't have more new clothes. If you want a new man in your life, you've got to let go of the one who stopped dating you five years ago. In other words, you need to complete the past in order for the present to show up more fully.”

“We look for the sermon in the suicide, for the social or moral lesson in the murder of five. We interpret what we see, select the most workable of the multiple choices.”

Looks Choices Social Moral Five Lessons Murder Suicide Multiple Sermons Select Multiple Choice Moral Lessons

Book:The White Album

Source: The White Album

“If I should go out of church whenever I hear a false statement I could never stay there five minutes. But why come out? The streetis as false as the church, and when I get to my house, or to my manners, or to my speech, I have not got away from the lie.”

Ifs Should Lying House Church Five Society Minutes Speech Statements Manners Five Minutes

Book:The Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations

Source: The Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations

“The mature, forty-five-year-old woman, quite experienced in matters of life and death, knows that it was 'for the best,' but Daddy's girl, who hung onto his belt and danced fox trots on the tops of his shoes, cannot accept that Daddy is not here anymore.”

Knows Years Matter Death Girl Accepting Five Shoes Five Years Life And Death Forty Mature Hung Foxes Daddy Belts Old Woman Five Year Olds

Author:Mary-Lou Weisman

“It is not possible to rent a beach house within five hours' drive of one's hometown without being visited by people. This is especially true if I have actually invited them. One of my problems is that I like to be nicer than I actually am.”

People Ifs Problem House Hours Five Beach Invited Hospitality Hometown Beach House

Book:Traveling While Married

Source: Traveling While Married

“After a year or two of keeping my head down and trying to pass myself off as a normal person, I made contact with the five other people at my university who were interested in writing; and through them, and some of my teachers, I discovered that there was a whole subterranean Wonderland of Canadian writing that was going on just out of general earshot and sight.”

People Writing Trying Years Persons Made Two Whole Five Teacher Normal Sight Down And University Contact Wonderland

Author:Margaret Atwood

“The frantic search of five-year-olds for friends can thus be seen to forecast the beginnings of a basic shift in the parent-childrelationship, a shift which will occur gradually over many long years, and in which a child needs not only the support of child allies engaged in the same struggle but also the understanding of his parents.”

Needs Years Children Long Parent Understanding Support Struggle Five Friends Engaged Five Years Allies Five Year Olds Frantic Forecasts Parent Child

Author:Dorothy H Cohen

“I stopped eating meat about six years ago, when I was working on the movie Selena. During the shoot, I had to hold a chicken for five hours-if you hold it and feel its little heart beating for hours, you just can't think about eating it.”

Ifs Thinking Feels Years Heart Littles Hours Five Six Eating Years Ago Meat Chickens Heart Beat Eating Meat Heart Beating

Author:Constance Marie

“The difference between the hero and the coward is that the hero sticks in there five minutes longer”

Differences Five Minutes Hero Sticks Coward Five Minutes

Author:Brian Tracy

“I was not a community organizer before I was elected to the Senate, i spent five and a half years as the solicitor-general of Texas, the chief lawyer for the state of Texas in front of the U.S. Supreme Court.”

Years States Community Half Five Fronts Court Lawyer Supreme Chiefs Texas Senate Supreme Court Organizer Half A Year Solicitors

Author:Ted Cruz

“There are some forty-five thousand items in the average American supermarket and more than a quarter of them now contain corn. This goes for the nonfood items as well: Everything from the toothpaste and cosmetics to the disposable diapers, trash bags, cleansers, charcoal briquettes, matches, and batteries, right down to the shine on the cover of the magazine that catches your eye by the checkout: corn.”

Source: The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals

“Kong Qiu, or Master Kong as he was known, did not live to see his days of glory. During his lifetime, his views were received with scorn. But that was about two thousand five hundred years ago. A handful of his dedicated followers passed on Confucius' teachings to future generations. After Confucius' death, his followers published his teachings in the book, The Analects of Confucius.”

Years Two Book Views Known Five Generations Teaching Masters Thousand Glory Hundred Years Ago Lifetime Followers Dedicated Scorn Handful Future Generation

Author:Confucius

“Some men are like a church-organ -- you can play on them for a lifetime and always find new harmonies; others are like a music-box -- they have four or five thin jingles.”

Men Play Church Five Four Harmony Lifetime Boxes Organs Jingles

Author:Austin O'Malley

“For me, I have to say that I like to work a lot too, but I like not working better. The perfect scenario is when you just worked and you know something's coming up, then you have four, five, six months off. But you know you're going to have a job later.”

Knows Jobs Perfect Five Four Months Six Six Months Scenarios

Author:Salma Hayek

“I love to cook when I have the time. I don't cook French or Mexican food with exact recipes. I just go to the supermarket and buy things that look good, and I mix it all together and invent something. Ninety-five percent of the time, I'm lucky. Sometimes not so lucky, and I say, 'Let's go out to dinner.'”

Looks Sometimes Together Five Lucky Percent Dinner Cooks Recipes Ninety Mexican Supermarkets So Lucky Mexican Food

Author:Salma Hayek

“There is natural ignorance and there is artificial ignorance. I should say at the present moment the artificial ignorance is about eighty-five per cent.”

Should Moments Natural Five Ignorance Present Moment Artificial Cents Eighty

Author:Ezra Pound

“We have put our country on solid ground, but let me tell you: The next five years are much, much more important. The next five years are about turning the good news in our economy into a good life for you and your family.”

Life Years Important Country Next Economy Five News Let Me Our Country Our Family Five Years Good Life Good News Family Life

Author:David Cameron

“No one seriously disputes that today a woman in Afghanistan is less likely to die giving birth to a child, that the child is more likely to reach the age of five years old, and having reached the age of five that child is far more likely to have a chance to go to school.”

Giving Years Children Age Today School Dies Chance Five Birth Five Years Afghanistan Disputes Giving Birth Five Year Olds

Author:Graeme Smith

“I am totally convinced that most grown-ups have completely forgotten what is it like to be a child between the ages of five and then... I can remember exactly what it was like. I am certain I can.”

Children I Can Age Remember Certain Five Forgotten Convinced

Author:Roald Dahl

“Ah, what shall I be at fifty, should nature keep me alive, if I find the world so bitter when I am but twenty-five?”

Ifs World Should Nature Five Alive Twenties Bitter Fifty Twenty Five

Author:Alfred the Great

“Got any pitches? I got five pitches-rise-ball, curveball, screwball, drop-ball and changeup.”

Five Balls Curveballs

Author:Jennie Finch

“Five parts of my brain contain alien power, whatever I do or say cannot be denied on the intergalactic highway of existence.”

Existence Brain Five Aliens Denied Highways

Author:Gary Busey

“My God, thank you. Thank you very much. I'm almost embarrassed by the response, but when I see this, I know that the twenty five years that I've spent trying to make you happy every night of your life was worth every damn minute of it.”

Knows Trying Years Night Five Minutes Twenties Response Damn Five Years Every Night Embarrassed Make You Happy Twenty Five

Author:Ric Flair

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