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“The public, as a whole, buys at the wrong time and sells at the wrong time. The average operator, when he sees two or three points profit, takes it; but, if a stock goes against him two or three points, he holds on waiting for the price to recover, with oftentimes, the result of seeing a loss of two or three points run into a loss of ten points.”

Ifs Two Whole Running Three Waiting Loss Results Seeing Ten Sells Average Profit Wrong Time Operators

Book:Dow Theory Unplugged: Charles Dow's Original Editorials & Their Relevance Today

Source: Dow Theory Unplugged: Charles Dow's Original Editorials & Their Relevance Today

“Our feelings probably are not less strong at fifty than they were ten or fifteen years before; but they have changed their objects, and dwell on far different prospects. At five-and-thirty a man thinks of what his own existence is; when the maturity of age has grown into its autumn, he is wrapt up in that of others. The loss of wife or child then becomes more deplorable, as being impossible to repair; for no fresh connection can give us back the companion of our earlier years, nor a "new-sprung race" compensate for that, whose career we hoped to see run.”

Source: Lodore

“The consensus is that no more than five to ten people in a hundred who die by gunfire in Los Angeles are any loss to society. These people fight small wars amongst themselves. It would seem a valid social service to keep them well-supplied with ammunition.”

People Wells War Seems Dies Fighting Social Loss Five Ten Hundred Los Angeles Consensus Ammunition Social Service

Author:Jeff Cooper

“If the Richter scale could measure human calamities, the loss of a child would register a ten.”

Ifs Humans Children Death Loss Ten Scales Calamity Register Loss Of A Child

Book:How to Be a Friend to a Friend Who's Sick

Source: How to Be a Friend to a Friend Who's Sick

“Ten years dropped from a man's life are no small loss; ten years of manhood, of household happiness and care; ten years of honest labor, of conscious enjoyment of sunshine and outdoor beauty; ten years of grateful life--one day looking forward to all this; the next, waking to find them passed, and a blank.”

Source: Hans Brinker: Or, The Silver Skates, a Story of Life in Holland

“A child is nothing like a racing car. . . . Souping up babies doesn't work that way. The child is what she is. There is a certainirreducible if elusive core. Pushing, pulling, stretching, and shrinking will not really change it. There may be spectacular interim results. The baby may say the alphabet before she walks, master two-times or even ten-times table at three. In the long run, however, this forced precocity tends to be irrelevant. . . . Whatever gains there are become unimportant. The losses can be irrevocable.”

“It's got to be the best intellectual exercise out there. You're seeing through new situations every ten minutes. In the stock market you don't base your decisions on what the market is doing, but on what you think is rational. Bridge is about weighing gain/loss ratios. You're doing calculations all the time.”

Thinking Loss Decision Situation Seeing Minutes Exercise Ten Intellectual Gains Rational Bridges Being The Best Calculations Ratios Weighing New Situations

Author:Warren Buffett

“The surest way to identify those who won't succeed at weight loss is that they tend to say things like "My goal is to lose ten pounds." Weight targets often work in the short run. But if you need willpower to keep the weight off, you're doomed in the long run. The only way to succeed in the long run is by using a system that bypasses your need for willpower.”

Ifs Way Needs Long Running Goal Loses Loss Succeed Ten Weight Pounds Target Long Runs Doomed Willpower Weight Loss Bypass

Author:Scott Adams

“A bloody and complete victory has sometimes yielded no more than the possession of the field and the loss of ten thousand men has sometimes been sufficient to destroy, in a single day, the work of ages.”

Men Sometimes Age Loss Fields Victory Thousand Ten Possession Sufficient Bloody

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Edward Gibbon (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Edward Gibbon (Illustrated)

“It hurt the economic historians, the Marxists and the fabians, to admit that the Ten Hour Bill, the basic piece of 19th century legislation, came down from the top, out of aa nobleman's private feelings about the Gospel, or that the abolition of the slave trade was achieved, not through the operation of some "law" of profit and loss, but peurlet as the result of tyhe new humanitarianism of the Evangelicals.”

“The economic insecurity of the past ten to 15 years, the 2008 Wall Street crash, NAFTA, and the loss of millions of good jobs - these directly grow out of Democratic Party neo-liberal policies.”

Years Jobs Past Grows Loss Party Millions Economic Streets Policy Wall Ten Democratic Insecurity Crash Good Job Democratic Party Nafta

Author:Jill Stein

“Ten years, she's dead, and I still find myself some mornings reaching for the phone to call her. She could no more be gone than gravity or the moon.”

Years Stills Loss Morning Gone Moon Ten Phones Reaching Gravity

Author:Mary Karr

“The more you pursue distractions, the less effective any particular distraction is, and so I'd had to up various dosages, until, before I knew it, I was checking my e-mail every ten minutes, and my plugs of tobacco were getting ever larger, and my two drinks a night had worsened to four, and I'd achieved such deep mastery of computer solitaire that my goal was no longer to win a game but to win two or more games in a row--a kind of meta-solitaire whose fascination consisted not in playing the cards but in surfing the streaks of wins and losses.”

Source: Farther Away: Essays