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One common adage...that is completely wrongheaded is: You can't go broke taking profits. That's precisely how many traders do go broke. While amateurs go broke… — William Eckhardt
You must have the discipline and temperament to resist your impulses. Human beings have precisely the wrong instincts when it comes to the markets. If… — Irving Kahn
In order to be able thus to misjudge, and thus to grant left-handed veneration to our classics, people must have ceased to know them. This,… — Friedrich Nietzsche
I will make an attempt to attain freedom, the youthful soul says to itself; and is it to be hindered in this by the fact… — Friedrich Nietzsche
This fighting-shy of every obligation partly explains the phenomenon, half ridiculous, half disgraceful, Of the setting-up in our days of the platform of "youth" as… — Jose Ortega y Gasset
The very object of an art, the principle of its artifice, is precisely to impart the impression of an ideal state in which the man… — Paul Valery
If the United States and the United Nations truly want peace and security let them fulfill the hopes of the common people everywhere - let… — Paul Robeson
We cherish the conventional story of Dr. King and nonviolence, in fact, precisely because that narrative demands so little of usâ€¦This conventional narrative is soothing,… — Timothy B. Tyson
Our human bodies are miracles, not because they defy laws of nature, but precisely because they obey them. — Harold S. Kushner
It was precisely this notion of infinite series which in the sixth century BC led the Greek philosopher Zeno to conclude that since an arrow… — Tom Stoppard
Every discrimination against women in the constitutions and laws of the several States is today null and void, precisely as in every one against Negroes. — Susan B. Anthony
Self-projection is, more often than not, the move of the minor craftsman, of the tactics of the hour whose inherent weakness is, precisely, that of… — George Steiner
Sometimes the most beautiful thing is precisely the one that comes unexpectedly and unearned, hence something given truly as a present. — Anna Freud
Indeed, a major source of objection to a free economy is precisely that it... gives people what they want instead of what a particular group… — Milton Friedman
It's precisely the disappointing stories, which have no proper ending and therefore no proper meaning, that sound true to life. — Max Frisch
I still don't know precisely why The Mickey Mouse Club ended when it did. — Annette Funicello
There is certainly no absolute standard of beauty. That precisely is what makes its pursuit so interesting. — John Kenneth Galbraith
The difficulties which I meet with in order to realize my existence are precisely what awaken and mobilize my activities, my capacities. — Jose Ortega y Gasset
We don't know where our first impressions come from or precisely what they mean, so we don't always appreciate their fragility. — Malcolm Gladwell
The Supreme Court has never ruled that Congress can use the Commerce Clause to require individuals to engage in an activity they have chosen to… — John Cornyn

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