"In fact, of all hoodoos in Wall Street I think the resolve to induce the stock market to act as a fairy godmother is the busiest and most persistent."

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Source : Edwin Lefevre (2013). “Reminiscences of a Stock Operator”, p.261, Lulu Press, Inc

Edwin Lefevre

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“Fall with awareness and acceptance.”
“I believe all Southern liberals come from the same starting point--race. Once you figure out they are lying to you about race, you start to question everything.”

Source : Molly Ivins (2010). “Molly Ivins Can't Say That, Can She?”, p.14, Vintage
“I can't just only be on reality TV and show everything when it's the fairy princess, fairytale, and then not take my hits when I have to.”
“Only the man who disciplines himself strictly can stand for long the terrific pace of modern war.”
“I remember kind of doing early acting and thinking, 'God, they don't paint behind the sets.' It's a bit of a shame, really - 'Oh, what's on the other side of this wall? Oh, you can see the plywood.' I was really disappointed. I just thought that these things were real, from watching things as a kid.”
“The love between a writer and a reader is never celebrated.”

Source : Patricia Duncker (2017). “Hallucinating Foucault”, p.113, Bloomsbury Publishing
“I wanted to be a soccer player; I wanted to do it at the highest level.”
“If you look at the market cap increase in Apple since it created the iPod versus what's happened to the music industry, you have to say Apple got the better part of that deal.”

Source : "Warner Music Group CEO: Steve Jobs Got the Best of Us" by Paul Bond, www.hollywoodreporter.com. January 31, 2012.

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