"It's like a crapshoot in Las Vegas, except in Las Vegas the odds are with the house. As for the market, the odds are with you, because on average over the long run, the market has paid off."

-- Harry Markowitz

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“Life can take so many twists and turns. You canâ€™t ever count yourself out. Even if youâ€™re really afraid at some point, you canâ€™t think that thereâ€™s no room for you to grow and do something good with your life.”
“A king who feared wasps once decreed that they were abolished. As it happened, they did him no harm. But he was eventually stung to death by scorpions.”
“What we did in the 1960s and early 1970s was raise the consciousness of white America that this government has a responsibility to Indian people. That there are treaties; that textbooks in every school in America have a responsibility to tell the truth. An awareness reached across America that if Native American people had to resort to arms at Wounded Knee, there must really be something wrong. And Americans realized that native people are still here, that they have a moral standing, a legal standing. From that, our own people began to sense the pride.”
“The ideal Government minister may well be someone who has no itch to run other people's lives.”
“We need to be homesick for heaven. Though we have never been there, we still have something God has built within us that gives us a certain homesickness, a desire to be there.”
“We canâ€™t solve problems for others. We can introduce them to the Lord.”
“However long you have a cat and however plainly he lays his life open before you, there is always something hidden, some name he goes by in a place you never heard of.”

Source : Barbara Holland (1994). “Secrets of the Cat: Its Lore, Legend, and Lives”, Ivy Books
“Home is a place in the mind. When it is empty, it frets. It is fretful with memory, faces and places and times gone by. Beloved images rise up in disobedience and make a mirror for emptiness.”

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