"In the final analysis, means and ends must cohere because the end is preexistent in the means, and, ultimately, destructive means cannot bring about constructive ends."
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"You can hide as cleverly as you like, but in the final analysis mimicry is deception, pure and simple. It doesn't solve a thing."
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"Common stock investors can make money by predicting the outcomes of practice evolution. You can't derive this by fundamental analysis - you must think biologically."
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"We are convinced that the intelligent investor can derive satisfactory results from pricing of either type (market timing or fundamental analysis via price). We are equally sure that if he places his emphasis on timing, in the sense of forecasting, he will end up as a speculator and with a speculator's financial results." And "The speculator's primary interest lies in anticipating and profiting from market fluctuations. The investor's primary interest lies in acquiring and holding suitable securities at suitable prices."
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"My early work and publications centered around expanding on the analysis of life insurance in my dissertation and its relationship to investment banking."
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"The mind effortlessly and automatically takes in new ideas, which remain in limbo until verified or rejected by conscious, rational analysis."
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"Even in my first analysis of a depressive psychosis, I was immediately struck by its structural similarity with obsessional neurosis."
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"The virtual suppression of ethical discussion after 1845 produces the semblance of purely descriptive analysis, dressed in the mantle of positivist objectivity, analysis which is, in fact, strung to a framework of crude, because unexplicated, moral assumptions."
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"Western traditions of education have emphasized knowledge analysis, description and debate. They all have a part to play, but today there is a whole vast aspect of doing that has just been left out. Operacy is what keeps society going."
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"Cubism had been an analysis of the object and an attempt to put it before us in its totality; both as analysis and as synthesis, it was a criticism of appearance. Surrealism transmuted the object, and suddenly a canvas became an apparition: a new figuration, a real transfiguration."
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"If your neighbors did an analysis of your life, what would they learn about the kingdom?"
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"What's the harm of a little mystification? It sure beats boring statistical analyses."
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"History only exists, in the final analysis, for God."
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"There may be thousands of principles of Marxism, but in the final analysis they can be summed up in one sentence: Rebellion is justified."
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"In the final analysis it is between you and God, it was never between you and them anyway."
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"Individual security bargains may be located by the process of security analysis practically at any time. They can be bought with good overall results at all periods except when the general market itself is clearly in a selling range for investors. They show up to best advantage during the years in which the market remains in a relatively narrow and neutral area."
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"There is no staff. I make all the investment decisions and I do all my own analysis."
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"Hydrodynamics procreated complex analysis, partial differential equations, Lie groups and algebra theory, cohomology theory and scientific computing."
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"There can be as much value in the blink of an eye as in months of rational analysis."
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"Truth suffers from too much analysis."
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