"Market values are fixed only in part by balance sheets and income statements; much more by the hopes and fears of humanity; by greed, ambition, acts of God, invention, financial stress and strain, weather, discovery, fashion and numberless other causes impossible to be listed without omission."

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Source : Gerald M. Loeb (2007). “Battle for Investment Survival”, p.2, John Wiley & Sons

Gerald M. Loeb

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“We can't all be stars; we can't all be leaders. We are all God's creatures, living life, and we have that God light in us and we're supposed to let it shine. And not everybody wants to be like me and stick their neck out to get up on stage and perform. There are those like me, but there are also those that are of a shyer nature. And they're smarter than most of us that are out there showing our asses.”
“I honestly don't love the Cheech and Chong movies, I've got to say.”
“When Adam found his rib was gone He cursed and sighed and cried and swore And looked with cold resentment on The creature God has used it for.”

Source : John Hollander (1978). “Spectral emanations: new and selected poems”
“The word sacred comes from sacrifice, to cut up. That means that in order to have a sacred journey, you have to give up something, sacrifice; but few people today in the West want to hear about that. Americans want the boon without the labyrinth.Pilgrimage starts the wheel, it turns the wheel of samsara, the wheel of life, and we have to live with the consequences.”
“The quality of a play is the quality of its ideas.”
“I don’t want money. What the hell’s money good for? You can’t drive it and you can’t eat it and it won’t even fix a flat.”
“Religion is the centre which unites, and the cement which connects the several parts of members of the political body.”
“[Finishing schools] are nicely adapted machines for experimenting on the question, "Into how little space a human being can be crushed?" I have seen some souls so compressed that they would have fitted into a small thimble, and found room to move . . .”

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