Cultures erect enormous temples to what they honor; today the highest building in any American city is often a bank.

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Time is Too slow for those who wait,
Too swift for those who fear,
Too long for those who grieve,
Too short for those who rejoice,
But for those who love Time is not.

Henry Van Dyke (1852 – 1933),
American author, educator, and clergyman

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Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.

Bertrand Russell, a British philosopher, logician, mathematician, historian, pacifist, and social critic.

Escher

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“Anyone with average intelligence can learn to trade. This is not rocket science. However, it’s much easier to learn what you should do in trading than to do it. Good systems tend to violate normal human tendencies. Of the people who can learn the basics, only a small percentage will be successful traders.

If a betting game among a certain number of participants is played long enough, eventually one player will have all the money. If there is any skill involved, it will accelerate the process of concentrating all the stakes in a few hands. Something like this happens in the market. There is a persistent overall tendency for equity to flow from the many to the few. In the long run, the majority loses. The implication for the trader is that to win you have to act like the minority. If you bring normal human habits and tendencies to trading, you’ll gravitate toward the majority and inevitably lose.”

William Eckhardt, from The New Market Wizards: Conversations with America’s Top Traders

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The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.

Bertrand Russell, British philosopher

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There is no such thing as public opinion. There is only published opinion.

Winston Churchill (1874-1965), British politician

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Thinking isn’t agreeing or disagreeing. That’s voting.

Robert Frost, American poet

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It is not that we have a short space of time, but that we waste much of it. Life is long enough, and it has been given in sufficiently generous measure to allow the accomplishment of the very greatest things if the whole of it is well invested.

Seneca, Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, dramatist

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Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t.

Erica Jong, American author and teacher

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Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.

Bertrand Russell, British philosopher

In other words, middle class upbringing doesn’t help to achieve signficant heights in life.

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