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"We've long felt that the only value of stock forecasters is to make fortune tellers look good. Even now, Charlie and I continue to believe that short-term market forecasts are poison and should be kept locked up in a safe place, away from children and also from grown-ups who behave in the market like children."
"An investor needs to do very few things right as long as he or she avoids big mistakes."
"We have long felt that the only value of stock forecasters is to make fortune-tellers look good."
"Does the business have favourable long term prospects?"
"We rarely use much debt and, when we do, we attempt to structure it on a long-term fixed rate basis. We will reject interesting opportunities rather than over-leverage our balance sheet. This conservatism has penalized our results but it is the only behavior that leaves us comfortable, considering our fiduciary obligations to policyholders, depositors, lenders and the many equity holders who have committed unusually large portions of their net worth to our care."
"No longer what your belief about yourself is - if you've always been poor, if you've always been overweight, if you've always had rotten relationships, if your luck hasn't been good, if you don't attract into your life the things you want, if you've always been shy or always been aggressive - whatever it is and however long you've held it, the belief that you can't change it is not aligned with Source. Source says you can be anything. You can do anything. You're infinite."
"There was one species of despotism under which he had long groaned, and that was petticoat government."
"Nearly all the Escapists in the long past have managed their own budget and their social relations so unsuccessfully that I wouldn't want them for my landlords, or my bankers, or my neighbors. They were valuable, like powerful stimulants, only when they were left out of the social and industrial routine."
"As a child, I watched 'Dallas' and that was my vision for my life for as long as I could remember."
"Like a long-legged fly upon the stream / His mind moves upon silence."
"And sure enough, even waiting will end...if you can just wait long enough."
"Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system. Our thoughts and beliefs pass, so long as nothing challenges them, just as bank-notes pass so long as nobody refuses them."
"The tragedy of Karbala decided not only the fate of the Caliphate, but also of Mohammadan kingdoms long after the Caliphate had waned and disappeared."
"My long sickness Of health and living now begins to mend, And nothing brings me all things."
"Come now, what masques, what dances shall we have To wear away this long age of three hours Between our after-supper and bedtime?"
"This is the short and the long of it."
"Love that well which thou must leave ere long."
"Ay me! sad hours seem long."
"As merry as the day is long."
"Truth will come to sight; murder cannot be hid long."
