"Markets are efficient, but there are different dimensions of risk and those lead to different dimensions of expected returns. That's what people should be concerned with in their investment decisions and not with whether they can pick stocks, pick winners and losers among the various managers delivering basically the same product."

-- Eugene Fama

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“They're called 'facts', and my role is to amplify those, not cheerlead. And I don't care at all what you think of my motives.”
“The word hammockable (describing two trees that are the perfect distance apart between which a hammock can be hung) is not in the dictionary, but it should be. [Of lying in hammocks]”

Source : Dan Kieran, Tom Hodgkinson (2012). “The Book of Idle Pleasures”, p.194, Random House
“I write as clearly as I am able to. I sometimes tackle ideas and notions that are relatively complex, and it is very difficult to be sure that I am conveying them in the best way. Anyone who goes beyond cliche phrases and cliche ideas will have this trouble.”

Source : "The Alien Critic" Journal, August 1973.
“It seems to me that when we listen to the Muslim mystics as they talk about Jesus and their love for Jesus, I must say, itâ€™s a lot closer to New Testament Christianity than a lot of the Christians that I hear. In other words if we are looking for common ground, can we find it in mystical spirituality, even if we cannot theologically agree, Can we pray together in such a way that we connect with a God that transcends our theological differences?”
“A child who can love the oddities of a fantasy book cannot possibly be xenophobic as an adult. What is a different color, a different culture, a different tongue for a child who has already mastered Elvish, respected Puddleglums, or fallen under the spell of dark-skinned Ged?”
“What you are looking for is what is looking.”
“In the end, creativity isnâ€™t just the things we choose to put in, itâ€™s the things we choose to leave out.”
“If the condition of grief is nearly universal, its transactions are exquisitely personal.”

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