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“We must pass like smoke or live within the spirit's fire; For we can no more than smoke unto the flame return If our thought has changed to dream, our will unto desire, As smoke we vanish though the fire may burn.”

Ifs May Dream Spirit Desire Fire Fate Changed Return Smoke Flames Our Thoughts

Book:Selected poems

Source: Selected poems

“There is no passion more dominant and instinctive in the human spirit than the need of the country to which one belongs.... The time comes when nothing in the world is so important as a breath of one's own particular climate. If it were one's last penny it would be used for that return passage.”

Ifs World Needs Humans Important Country Would Be Lasts Used Spirit Passion Particular Return Breaths Climate Nationalism Passages Dominant Human Spirit Pennies Homesickness

Book:Three Lives

Source: Three Lives

“I am apt to think, if we knew what it was to be an angel for one hour, we should return to this world, though it were to sit on the brightest throne in it, with vastly more loathing and reluctance than we would now descend into a loathsome dungeon or sepulchre.”

Ifs Thinking World Should Hours This World Return Angel Thrones Loathing One Hour Dungeons Reluctance

Book:The works of George Berkeley

Source: The works of George Berkeley

“If the Russians have gone too far in subjecting the child and his peer group to conformity to a single set of values imposed by the adult society, perhaps we have reached the point of diminishing returns in allowing excessive autonomy and in failing to utilize the constructive potential of the peer group in developing social responsibility and consideration for others.”

Source: 2 Wrlds Childhood

“The roots of a child's ability to cope and thrive, regardless of circumstance, lie in that child's having had at least a small, safe place (an apartment? a room? a lap?) in which, in the companionship of a loving person, that child could discover that he or she was lovable and capable of loving in return. If a child finds this during the first years of life, he or she can grow up to be a competent, healthy person.”

Source: Many Ways to Say I Love You: Wisdom for Parents and Children from Mister Rogers

“Both sex and death are eternal themes. You could make thousands of movies on this theme, and whether you have a human being who is painting, singing, making a film, writing, these are the themes that you will come back to and return to. If you don't have any of these artistic expressions, sex is one of the only gifts that nature gave you for free, so it is very important to celebrate it. And then, with death, we are condemned to that. This is absolutely present in our lives.”

Ifs Writing Humans Important Film Sex Human Beings Our Lives Painting Expression Return Eternal Singing Celebrate Artistic Theme Artistic Expression Sex And Death Film Writing

Author:Pedro Almodovar

“I call horses divine mirrors - they reflect back the emotions you put in. If you put in love and respect and kindness and curiosity, the horse will return that.”

Ifs Emotion Kindness Divine Return Horse Mirrors Curiosity Love And Respect Respect And Kindness

Author:Allan Hamilton

“I'm a fountain of blood in the shape of a girl . . . leave me now return tonight tide will show you the way if you forget my name you will go astray like a killer whale trapped in a bay”

Ifs Way Shows Girl Names Forget Blood Return Shapes Tonight Killers Tides Trapped Fountain Leaving Me Whales Killer Whales

Author:Bjork

“Where woman has taken her place in business she has found her method ready-shaped for her, and following that, she does her work,if with a certain amount of monotony, yet without undue fatigue. Her hours are fixed, and as a rule she gets needful change of scene as she goes to her business and returns to her home or the place where she lives. But the "home- maker" has not, nor can she have, any such change, and her hours are always from the rising of the sun beyond the going down of the same.”

Ifs Doe Home Certain Found Hours Sun Taken Ready Return Amount Scene Method Following Fixed Rising Makers Fatigue Monotony Working Women

Author:Anna Brackett

“If a man, notoriously and designedly, insults and affronts you, knock him down; but if he only injures you, your best revenge is to be extremely civil to him in your outward behaviour, though at the same time you counterwork him, and return him the compliment, perhaps with interest.”

Ifs Men Interest Return Revenge Insult Compliment Behaviour Best Revenge

Book:The Works of Lord Chesterfield: Including His Letters to His Son, Etc : to which is Prefixed, an Original Life of the Author

Source: The Works of Lord Chesterfield: Including His Letters to His Son, Etc : to which is Prefixed, an Original Life of the Author

“If we are at war with our parents, our family, our society, or our church, there is probably a war going on inside us also, so the most basic work for peace is to return to ourselves and create harmony among the elements within us - our feelings, our perceptions, and our mental states. That is why the practice of meditation, looking deeply, is so important.”

Source: Living Buddha, Living Christ 10th Anniversary Edition

“The government is not God. It does not have the right to take away that which it can't return even if it wants to.”

Ifs Want Doe Government Return Capital Punishment

Author:Anton Chekhov

“Courtesy is doing that which nothing under the sun makes you do but human kindness. Courtesy springs from the heart; if the mind prompts the action, there is a reason; if there be a reason, it is not courtesy, for courtesy has no reason. Courtesy is good will, and good will is prompted by the heart full of love to be kind. Only the generous man is truly courteous. He gives freely without a thought of receiving anything in return.”

“The distribution of the market is fat-tailed relative to the normal distribution... For passive investors, none of this matters, beyond being aware that outlier returns are more common than would be expected if return distributions were normal.”

Ifs Matter Would Be Common Return Normal Investing Expected Fats Investors Relative Passive Distribution Outliers

Author:Eugene Fama

“Index funds are... tax friendly, allowing investors to defer the realization of capital gains or avoid them completely if the shares are later bequeathed. To the extent that the long-run uptrend in stock prices continues, switching from security to security involves realizing capital gains that are subject to tax. Taxes are a crucially important financial consideration because the earlier realization of capital gains will substantially reduce net returns.”

“If your broker or investment advisor is not familiar with the concept of standard deviation of returns, get a new one.”

Ifs Return Standards Concepts Investment Investing Familiar Advisors Deviation Brokers

Author:William J. Bernstein

“[What if my advisor talks only about returns, not risk?] ... It's his job to take risk into account by telling you the range of possible outcomes you face. If he won't, go get a new planner, someone who will get real.”

Ifs Real Jobs Faces Risk Return Accounts Investing Range Outcomes What If Get Real Risk It Planners Advisors

Author:William Forsyth Sharpe

“The true investor... will do better if he forgets about the stock market and pays attention to his dividend returns and to the operation results of his companies.”

Ifs Forget Results Pay Attention Company Return Investing Pay Attention Operations Investors Dividends

Book:The Intelligent Investor: A Book of Practical Counsel

Source: The Intelligent Investor: A Book of Practical Counsel

“As a result of overdiversification, their (active managers) returns get watered down. Diversification covers up ignorance. Active managers haven't done enough research into any of their companies. If managers have 200 positions, do you think they know what's going on at any one of those companies at this moment?”

Ifs Thinking Knows Done Enough Moments Results Company Havens Position Ignorance Return Research Investing Active Managers Cover Ups Diversification

Author:Bill Ackman

“While ants exist in just the right numbers for the rest of the living world, humans have become too numerous. If we were to vanish today, the land environment would return to the fertile balance that existed before the human population explosion. Only a dozen or so species, among which are the crab louse and a mite that lives in the oil glands of our foreheads, depend on us entirely. But if ants were to disappear, tens of thousands of other plants and animal species would perish also, simplifying and weakening land ecosystems almost everywhere.”

“That is my home of love: if I have ranged, Like him that travels I return again, Just to the time, not with the time exchanged.”

Ifs Home Return

Book:The New Oxford Shakespeare: Modern Critical Edition: The Complete Works

Source: The New Oxford Shakespeare: Modern Critical Edition: The Complete Works

“Today, we know that time travel need not be confined to myths, science fiction, Hollywood movies, or even speculation by theoretical physicists. Time travel is possible. For example, an object traveling at high speeds ages more slowly than a stationary object. This means that if you were to travel into outer space and return, moving close to light speed, you could travel thousands of years into the Earth's future.”

Source: Time: A Traveler's Guide

“Man is constantly being assured that he has more power than ever before in history, but his daily experience is one of powerlessness. ... If he is with a business organization, the odds are great that he has sacrificed every other kind of independence in return for that dubious one known as financial.”

Ifs Men Kind Known Return Organization Independence Financial Odds Assured Powerlessness Dubious Daily Experience Business Organization

Author:Richard M. Weaver

“Take care how you listen to the voice of the flatterer, who, in return for his little stock, expects to derive from you considerable advantage. If one day you do not comply with his wishes, be imputes to you two hundred defects instead of perfections.”

Ifs Littles Two Care Wish Voice Return One Day Hundred Advantage Perfection Take Care Defects Flattery Flatterer

Book:Gulistan or Rose Garden

Source: Gulistan or Rose Garden

“You don't actually find a strong correlation between- top-line GDP growth and making money in the market. It- it seems like you should. The fastest-growing countries should give you the highest return. They simply don't. But, there's only four of us- that- that believe that story. Everyone else in the world believes that if you grow fast like China, you'll outperform in the stock market.”

Ifs World Giving Should Believe Country Stories Seems Strong Grows Growth Lines Four Growing Like You Return Highest China Making Money Correlation Gdp

Author:Jeremy Grantham

“If we love-and-serve an ideal we reach backward in time to its inception and forward to its consummation. To grow is sometimes to hurt; but who would return to smallness?”

Ifs Sometimes Grows Hurt Return Ideals Smallness Inception

Book:The Desegregated Heart: A Virginian's Stand in Time of Transition

Source: The Desegregated Heart: A Virginian's Stand in Time of Transition

“Christ came to save us. If we have taken a wrong course, the Atonement of Jesus Christ can give us the assurance that sin is not a point of no return. A safe return is possible if we will follow God's plan for our salvation”

Ifs Giving Courses Jesus Christ Sin Taken Plans Return Safe Jesus Christ Salvation Assurance Atonement God's Plan Safe Return

Author:Dieter F. Uchtdorf

“It would be much better if I could only stop thinking. Thoughts are the dullest things. Duller than flesh. They stretch out and there's no end to them and they leave a funny taste in the mouth. Then there are words, inside the thoughts, unfinished words, a sketchy sentence which constantly returns...It goes, it goes ... and there's no end to it. It's worse than the rest because I feel responsible and have complicity in it. For example, this sort of painful rumination: I exist, I am the one who keeps it up. I.”

Ifs Thinking Feels Ends Would Be Example Return Taste Mouths Responsible Painful Sentences Flesh If I Could Unfinished Complicity Rumination Sketchy

Author:Jean-Paul Sartre

“Motherhood - no matter if you're a working mom or stay at home mom - is really tough sometimes. It can really leave us each day with a sense of wondering if we're doing it right. You know, it's a long term investment. You don't see big returns in the short term. Raising a child can easily pull you into being hyper-focused on the tough everyday moments of life.”

“You can return blow for blow if you are not brave enough to follow the path of nonviolence.”

Ifs Enough Path Return Brave Blow Nonviolence

Book:The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi

Source: The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi

“When pieces of work speak to us in a way that feels as if they were made just for us, those become our private worlds that we return to.”

Ifs World Way Feels Made Speak Pieces Return

Author:Jeanette Winterson

“Everyone who's been in space would, I'm sure, welcome the opportunity for a return to the exhilarating experiences there. For me, a flight in a shuttle, though most satisfying, would be anticlimactic after my flight to the moon. Plus, if I pursued a flight myself, people would think that was the reason I am trying to generate interest in public spaceflight. And that's not the purpose - I want to generate interest in long-range space exploration.”

“An event horizon, or the point of no return, is only a byproduct of the bending of space. However, electricity and magnetism, by themselves, have no event horizon. It gets complicated, however, if a black hole has charge, and then this new solution does have an event horizon.”

Ifs Doe Black Space Events Return Solutions Complicated Holes Horizon Electricity Bending Black Hole Event Horizon Magnetism Electricity And Magnetism

Author:Michio Kaku

“As human beings, even if we were to have tried to forget the past, if you dealt with it in a cavalier fashion, it would return to haunt you.”

Ifs Humans Past Human Beings Forget Fashion Return Forget The Past

Author:Desmond Tutu

“If you look at the balance sheet, the US is heavily in debt. If you look at the income account - the amount of interest the US pays abroad - it is almost exactly equal to the amount of interest that it receives from abroad. American assets held abroad are earning a higher rate of return than foreign assets held here.”

Ifs Looks Interest Pay Return Amount Balance Higher Equal Accounts Rate Debt Income Assets Earning Sheets Balance Sheets

Author:Milton Friedman

“I would tell new artists to be themselves. Show your talents first, have your own identity, don't try to be Lady Saw. If you're coming out to be like me, once you get in, return back to yourself, that's the only way you'll be happy. Don't come in trying to be me and then disrespect me.”

Ifs Way Trying Firsts Shows Artist Saws Talent Identity Return Like Me Coming Out Disrespect New Artists Return Back

Author:Lady Saw

“Karma is the universal law of cause and effect. You reap what you sow. You get what you earn... If you give love, you get love. Revenge returns itself upon the avenger. What goes around comes around... Karma is justice. It does not reward or punish. It shows no favoritism because we have to earn all that we receive. Karma doesn't predestine anyone or anything. We create our own causes, and karma adjusts the effects with perfect balance.”

“If you look at the whole life of the planet, we - you know, Man - has only been around for a few blinks of an eye. So if the infection wipes us all out, that is a return to normality.”

Ifs Knows Men Looks Whole Eye Planets Return Whole Life Apocalypse Wipe Blink Infection Normality Blink Of An Eye

Author:Alex Garland

“A book is a friend whose face is constantly changing. If you read it when you are recovering from an illness, and return to it years after, it is changed surely, with the change in yourself.”

Ifs Years Book Faces Changed Return Illness New Books Recovering

Book:The Library

Source: The Library

“If I go to the National Gallery and I look at one of the great paintings that excite me there, it's not so much the painting that excites me as that the painting unlocks all kinds of valves of sensation within me which return me to life more violently.”

Ifs Looks Kind Painting Return All Kinds Sensations Gallery Valve

Author:Francis Bacon

“I think that one of the things is that, if you are going to decide to be a painter, you have got to decide that you are not going to be afraid of making a fool of yourself. I think another thing is to be able to find subjects which really absorb you to try and do. I feel that without a subject you automatically go back into decoration because you haven't got the subject which is always eating into you to bring it back - and the greatest art always returns you to the vulnerability of the human situation.”

Ifs Thinking Feels Trying Humans Art Able Situation Subjects Havens Fool Return Eating Painter Vulnerability Decoration Always Eating Making A Fool Of Yourself

Book:Francis Bacon: Retrospektive

Source: Francis Bacon: Retrospektive

“The good he scorn'd Stalk'd off reluctant, like an ill-us'd ghost, Not to return; or if it did, its visits Like those of angels, short, and far between.”

Ifs Return Angel Ill Ghost Scorn Reluctant Stalking

Book:The grave, a poem. To which are added An elegy in a country church-yard, by Gray. Death, a poem, by bishop Porteus [&c.].

Source: The grave, a poem. To which are added An elegy in a country church-yard, by Gray. Death, a poem, by bishop Porteus [&c.].

“If we expect to inherit the blessings of our Fathers, we should return a little more to their primitive Simplicity of Manners.”

Ifs Should Littles Father Return Blessing Simplicity Manners Primitive Our Father

Book:The Book of Abigail and John: Selected Letters of the Adams Family, 1762-1784

Source: The Book of Abigail and John: Selected Letters of the Adams Family, 1762-1784

“If somebody asked for the first draft of something I'd written, it'd probably be pretty close to whatever got published. I get enjoyment out of writing, but I get absolutely no enjoyment out of rewriting, so I don't do much of it. The more you work on something, certainly, the better it gets. But there's also a pretty clear law of diminishing returns.”

Ifs Writing Firsts Law Clear Written Return Enjoyment Rewriting Diminishing Returns

Author:Chuck Klosterman

“In East Germany it was very normal for a woman to go out and work even if she had children. A few weeks after giving birth women would return to their normal working life. We never had housewives in East Germany.”

Ifs Giving Children Week Return Birth Normal East Germany Housewife Giving Birth Working Life East Germany

Author:Christian Schwochow

“Home is a blueprint of memory...Finding home is crucial to the act of writing. Begin here. With what you know. With the tales you've told dozens of times...with the map you've already made in your heart. That's where the real home is: inside. If we carry that home with us all the time, we'll be able to take more risks. We can leave on wild excursions, knowing we'll return home.”

Ifs Knows Writing Heart Made Real Home Able Memories Knowing Risk Return Findings Tales Maps Crucial Dozen Blueprints Excursions

Author:Georgia Heard

“When investing, I'm not against risk. If you take no risk you must expect a low return. Just don't let anyone fool you into thinking you can get a high return with low risk.”

Ifs Thinking Risk Fool Return Lows Investing

Author:Paul Clitheroe

“My audience is comprised of three categories. The first category contains the people who decide after the first five minutes that they've made a mistake and leave. The second category is the people who give the film a chance and leave annoyed after 40 minutes. The third category includes the people that watch the whole film and return to see it again. If I'm able to persuade 33% of the audience to stay, then I can say that I've succeeded.”

People Ifs Giving Firsts Made I Can Whole Able Film Three Chance Mistake Watches Audience Five Minutes Return Thirds Categories Five Minutes Annoyed Made A Mistake

Author:Peter Greenaway

“The images are visual, auditory, olfactory, kinesthetic. They aren't laid down on the same tracks as thought. And sometimes, when they return to you, it is as if you feel them for the very first time. Memory lives on in the details, like the color of a room, a tone of a voice, the touch of a child, the smell of a man.”

Ifs Men Feels Firsts Children Sometimes Voice Memories Rooms Color Return First Time Track Details Smell Tone Visuals Auditory

Author:Martha Manning

“If sexuality is beginning in such a skewed way: that boys expect to receive sexual pleasure and girls are expected to give it without reciprocation, is that why young women, even unintentionally, turn to getting something else in return for sex? Whether it be popularity, career success, professional attention.”

Ifs Way Giving Young Turns Girl Sex Pleasure Attention Boys Careers Return Sexuality Expected Popularity Young Women Career Success

Author:Cris Mazza

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