"When you find that it fails to respond adequately to your buying you don't need any better tip to sell."

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Source : Edwin Lefevre (2017). “Reminiscences of a Stock Operator (Harriman Definitive Editions): The classic novel based on the life of legendary stock market speculator Jesse Livermore”, p.264, Harriman House Limited

Edwin Lefevre

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“It is doubtful that the dissection of living animals and plants could be done by those who believe them to be holy. A pantheist would not view trees as so many board feet in the manner a Christian would. A pantheist would be less likely to measure the number of acre feet coming over a waterfall than his Christian descendent, centuries later who had become a scientist. That which is sacred would be handled with a certain reverence.”
“Frequently people think compassion and love are merely sentimental. No! They are very demanding. If you are going to be compassionate, be prepared for action.”
“It is the eye of other people that ruin us. If I were blind I would want, neither fine clothes, fine houses or fine furniture.”
“Two-up is Australia's very own way of parting a fool and his money.”
“If you look at the history of big obstacles in understanding our world, there's usually an intuitive assumption underlying them that's wrong.”
“If you want to learn how to sing, listen to Ella Fitzgerald.”
“Stopped as attribute of a person, sex inequality takes the form of gender; moving as a relation between people, it takes the form of sexuality. Gender emerges as the congealed form of the sexualization of inequaltiy between men and women.”

Source : "Feminism Unmodified: Discourses on Life and Law". Book by Catharine MacKinnon, 1987.
“I'm interested in directing attention and focus, explored through playing cello.”

Source : "Meet TED Fellow Joshua Roman, 26 year-old Virtuoso Cellist". Interview with Tom Rielly, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 26, 2011.

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