"Everybody has a different strategy, but everybody agrees that active management does not beat the market."
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"Time. Time. What is time? Swiss manufacture it, French hoard it, Italians squander it, Americans say it is money. Hindus say it does not exist. Know what I say? I say time is a crook."
"The common moral framework: Do anything as long as it does no harm to others. Problem: Whose definition of harm?"
"It is the mind that makes us rich and happy, in what condition soever we are, and money signifies no more to it than it does to the gods."
"He who does not want to die should not want to live. For life is tendered to us with the proviso of death. Life is the way to this destination."
"He will live ill who does not know how to die well."
"Nature does not turn out her work according to a single pattern; she prides herself upon her power of variation."
"He invites the commission of a crime who does not forbid it, when it is in his power to do so."
"Both men and women react negatively when women negotiate on their own behalf. A man can just negotiate: "I have a better offer. That's not enough to make my family's ends meet." No one feels bad about it. But when a woman does that, there's a backlash."
"I should like to raise the question whether the inevitable stunting of the sense of smell as a result of man's turning away from the earth, and the organic repression of the smell-pleasure produced by it, does not largely share in his predisposition to nervous diseases."
"What does Everton chairman Bill Kenwright think he will get for £6m? Andy Johnson's trainers?"
"Leadership is about pointing in the direction, articulating a vision of the world that does not yet exist. Then asking help from others to insure that vision happens."
"I'm investing in myself, I'm investing in others and I'm investing in my cause. I know if I persist it will pay back in dividends and it always does."
"History does not unfold: it piles up."
"I like Spider-Man because he's become the most famous. He's the one who's most like me - nothing ever turns out 100 percent OK; he's got a lot of problems, and he does things wrong, and I can relate to that."
"A slow horse does not always reach the end of the journey."
"If a woman does need a hero, she needs him today, not tomorrow."
"A man never forgets his body the way a woman does, because a man is pushing his body, a part of his body, forward, to make the act of love happen. He brings the jut of his body into the act of love, then takes it back, when it has had its way."
"I don't see what women see in other women," I'd told Doctor Nolan in my interview that noon. "What does a woman see in a woman that she can't see in a man?" Doctor Nolan paused. Then she said, "Tenderness."
"If these poems repeat themselves, then so does Spring."