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I did precisely the wrong thing. The cotton showed me a loss and I kept it. The wheat showed me a profit and I sold… — Jesse Lauriston Livermore
Under fun's new administration, writing fiction becomes a way to go deep inside yourself and illuminate precisely the stuff you don't want to see or… — David Foster Wallace
I suspect that all the agony that goes into writing is borne precisely because the writer longs for acceptance-but it must be acceptance on his… — Ralph Ellison
The commas are the most useful and usable of all the stops. It is highly important to put them in place as you go along.… — Lewis Thomas
Laws which authorize and promote abortion and euthanasia are therefore radically opposed not only to the good of the individual but also to the common… — Pope John Paul II
The legal toleration of abortion or of euthanasia can in no way claim to be based on respect for the conscience of others, precisely because… — Pope John Paul II
The photographer's problem is to see clearly the limitations and at the same time the potential qualities of his medium, for it is precisely here… — Paul Strand
Enormous self-belief, intuition, the ability to take a risk at a critical moment and go in for a very dangerous play with counter-chances for the… — Garry Kasparov
The Constitution exists precisely so that opinions and judgments, including esthetic and moral judgments about art and literature, can be formed, tested, and expressed. What… — Anthony Kennedy
Page after page of professional economic journals are filled with mathematical formulas leading the reader from sets of more or less plausible but entirely arbitrary… — Wassily Leontief
The concentrating of powers in the same hands is precisely the definition of despotic government. It will be no alleviation that these powers will be… — Thomas Jefferson
Geologists and paleo-climatologists know that in the past the Earth's temperature has been substantially warmer than it is today, and that this warming has occurred… — Greg Benson
If you ask me, what is helpful to creativity is training the eye to notice things, to observe closely and precisely, being careful not to… — Ian Graham
Patience serves us against insults precisely as clothes do against the cold. For if you multiply your garments as the cold increases, that cold cannot… — Leonardo da Vinci
The reward of commercial civilization is the ability to consume a never-ending array of products.There are limits beyond which commodities cannot be multiplied without preventing… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
All the talk about the so-called unspeakable horror of early capitalism can be refuted by a single statistic: precisely in these years in which British… — Ludwig von Mises
The genius of capitalism consists precisely in its lack of morality. Unless he is rich enough to hire his own choir, a capitalist is a… — Lewis H. Lapham
The first and probably most fundamental aspect of this crisis is that we are now close to the commodification of everything. That is, historical capitalism… — Immanuel Wallerstein
The great masses of people do not consist of philosophers; precisely for the masses, faith is often the sole foundation of a moral attitude. The… — Adolf Hitler
We do not want to destroy any people. It is precisely because we have been advocating coexistence that we have shed so much blood. — Yasser Arafat

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