"Fear has a far greater grasp on human action than the impressive weight of historical evidence."

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Source : Jeremy J. Siegel (1998). “Stocks for the Long Run: The Definitive Guide to Financial Market Returns and Long-term Investment Strategies”, McGraw-Hill Companies

Jeremy Siegel

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“From the writing stage, I had envisioned a film that would be bright and light, even if the movie addresses adolescent unrest and self-destructive behavior. Talking about adolescence, I wanted to make a very musical film that was also a love story with a sensorial, sensual dimension and which had a strong emotional impact.”

Source : Source: blogs.indiewire.com
“Words are charms. It's like a song you didn't even know you knew.”
“It is how you show up at the showdown that counts.”
“All but universally, human architecture values front elevations over back entrances, public spaces over private. Danny Jessup says that this aspect of architecture is also a reflection of human nature, that most people care more about their appearance than they do about their souls.”
“I knew, even as we touched that I had never wanted anything more in all my life. All my crabbed cravings were as a cupful of pond water beside the vast ocean of longing I felt surging through me. My head swam; my eyes blurred. I burned from the inside out as if my blood and bones were consumed with liquid fire.”
“I couldn't care less about business.”
“People have different interpretations of "urgent".”
“In housing in the fifties in Britain and the sixties, we pulled down the terraces - destroyed whole communities and replaced them with tower blocks and we built walkways that became rat-runs for muggers. That was the fashionable opinion. But it was wrong.”

Source : "Major goes back to the old values" by Patrick Wintour and Stephen Bates, www.theguardian.com. October 9, 1993.

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