"The missing piece in his stomach hurt so much-and eventually he stopped thinking about the Theorem and wondered only how something that isn't there can hurt you."
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"Anytime anybody offers you anything with a big commission and a 200-page prospectus, don't buy it. Occasionally, you'll be wrong if you adopt "Munger's Rule." However, over a lifetime, you'll be a long way ahead - and you will miss a lot of unhappy experiences."
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"Learn as if you were not reaching your goal and as though you were scared of missing it"
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"Then shift to intention. Not what I find missing in my life, but to what I absolutely intend to manifest and attract into my life."
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"Never miss a party...good for the nerves--like celery."
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"I don't have the desire that I think a lot of performers feel - to get the applause. It's not life or death for me. I love it and it's exciting, but it's not something I crave or miss, so I don't need to perform; I don't have that desire. I like to sing, and I love doing what I'm doing, but it's not a dire need."
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"You do not know what you can miss before you try."
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"Can somebody explain to me why Pepsi and Coke advertise? Are we missing something? Seriously, everyone in this room has drank enough Pepsi and Coke in their lifetime they could piss it for a week."
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"Let's face it. We're undone by each other. And if we're not, we're missing something."
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"Donald Trump insisted he's always had a great relationship with women. He said, 'I believe a woman can be anything she wants to be, whether that's Miss USA or Miss Universe. Either one.'"
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"It is possible to fail in many ways . . . while to succeed is possible only in one way (for which reason also one is easy and the other difficult - to miss the mark easy, to hit it difficult)."
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"If you look too closely at the form, you miss the Essence."
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"The net of heaven is very wide in its meshes, and yet it misses nothing."
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"He's a player you only miss when he's not playing"
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"The sin of inadvertence, not being alert, not quite awake, is the sin of missing the moment of life-live with unremitting alertness."
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"Everybody has their moment of great opportunity in life. If you happen to miss the one you care about, then everything else becomes eerily easy."
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"Always gone but never hard to find.. And since you can't escape me, do I ever cross your mind?"
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"Break their hearts my pride and hope, break their hearts and have no mercy. -Miss Havisham"
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"If you shed tears when you miss the sun, you also miss the stars."
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"Direct interference in a person's life does not enter our scope of activity, nor, on the other, tralatitiously speaking, hand, is his destiny a chain of predeterminate links: some 'future' events may be linked to others, O.K., but all are chimeric, and every cause-and-effect sequence is always a hit-and-miss affair, even if the lunette has actually closed around your neck, and the cretinous crowd holds its breath."
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