"Index funds are the only rational alternative for almost all mutual fund investors."

“Born in iniquity and conceived in sin, the spirit of nationalism has never ceased to bend human institutions to the service of dissension and distress.”

Source : Thorstein Veblen (1994). “Absentee Ownership: Business Enterprise in Recent Times : the Case of America”, p.38, Transaction Publishers

“It's astonishing in this world how things don't turn out at all the way you expect them to.”

“Beauty was deceptive. I would rather wear my pain, my ugliness. I was torn and stitched. I was a strip mine, and they would just have to look. I hoped I made them sick. I hoped they saw me in their dreams.”

Source : Janet Fitch (2013). “White Oleander”, p.111, Hachette UK

“You can go to a psychoanalyst one day and then go the next day and something else will come out. So, yes, there was some preparation. But still, when a person gets hypnotized, you don't really know what the outcome will be.”

“Out of many shared years. One life.”

Source : Richard Clarke Cabot (1915). “Prescriptions, to be Taken Immediately, to be Taken for Life: A Collection of Extracts from Dr. Richard C. Cabot's "What Men Live By," Selected by Edith Motter Lamb”

“Upon becoming fifty the one thing you can't afford is habit.”

“I'm interested in aesthetics, in the way things look, in finding something in an image that maybe people haven't seen.”

Source : "Women of Britain - your designers need you!" by Jess Cartner-Morley, www.theguardian.com. February 27, 2009.

“I like playing dark, broody types.”

Source : Source: collider.com