Quotes
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Edwin Lefevre

"Fear and hope remain the same; therefore the study of the psychology of speculators is as valuable as it ever was. Weapons change, but strategy remains strategy, on the New York Stock Exchange as on the battlefield. I think the clearest summing up of the whole thing wasÂ expressed by Thomas F. Woodlock when he declared: â€œThe principles of successful stock speculation are based on the supposition that people will continue in the future to make the mistakes that they have made in the past.â€"

Source : Edwin Lefevre (2013). “Reminiscences of a Stock Operator”, p.388, Lulu Press, Inc

Edwin Lefevre

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“Friendship can be really tested only in bad times.”
“The poet who writes "free" verse is like Robinson Crusoe on his desert island: he must do all his cooking, laundry and darning for himself. In a few exceptional cases, this manly independence produces something original and impressive, but more often the result is squalor dirty sheets on the unmade bed and empty bottles on the unswept floor.”
“I know some say, let us have good laws, and no matter for the men that execute them: but let them consider, that though good laws do well, good men do better: for good laws may want good men, and be abolished or evaded [invaded in Franklin's print] by ill men; but good men will never want good laws, nor suffer ill ones.”
“Was there a language of loss? Did everyone who suffered speak a different dialect?”
“I don't know any other lifestyle. I get up in the morning and I really do feel that the world is my oyster, and I start that way, the same as I would if I were preparing to write a song: put a blank piece of paper up on the piano and you go for it.”
“know what you want, work to get it, then value it once you have it.”

Source : Nora Roberts (2006). “Morrigan's Cross”, p.259, Penguin
“When I left law school, I wanted to go into the government, into the tax policy area. I got the job that I wanted in the International Tax Council's office in Treasury. I arrived determined to change the world. But I discovered very quickly that the world couldn't care less. And I couldn't stomach the lying and stealing that I witnessed. I realized that the only difference between my mother's family and the senators and administrators that I was working with was that the latter wore suits and ties.”

Source : Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org
“We lose ourselves in what we read, only to return to ourselves, transformed and part of a more expansive world.”

Source : "Judith Butler: 'What value do the humanities have?'". McGill University speech, speakola.squarespace.com. May 30, 2013.

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