"Remember, benchmark performance -- beta -- can be had for virtually free; alpha is what active managers are paid to generate."

-- Paul McCulley

#Remember Quotes #Beta Quotes #Performances Quotes

“Once again decent citizens will be able to enter this house of worship, kneel down in front of a nearly-naked man hanging from a wooden apparatus by a series of gruesome body piercings, and engage in their bizarre practices of ritualized blood-drinking and cannibalism without being assaulted by graphic images of attractive young women with bare breasts.”
“I'm a walking zombie and I think I'm going to be like that for a while.”
“When I was eleven or twelve years old, I became for a while fixated on the question whether there could be two 'identical' stones. This is, of course, the question whether the principle of identity of indiscernibles is true and, as I formulated it then, I was bound to fall into confusion about it.”

Source : Source: www.3ammagazine.com
“Moving on is easy what your leaving behind is what makes it hard.”
“Strangers used to gather together at the cinema and sit together in the dark, like Ancient Greeks participating in the mysteries, dreaming the same dream in unison.”
“I love a bright lip with a neutral eye. Its an easy, wearable look that gives brightness to your face without looking over-the-top.”
“Europe was a horrible place. There was nothing on TV. The food was terrible. And they don't even have ice. Who doesn't have ice?”
“Laughter is a powerful weapon for it carries the light. To laugh is to defy the darkness.”

Source : Isobelle Carmody (1996). “The Gathering”, Puffin

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