"A blindfolded monkey throwing darts at a newspaper's financial pages could select a portfolio that would do just as well as one carefully selected by experts,"

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Source : Burton G. Malkiel (2007). “A Random Walk Down Wall Street: The Time-Tested Strategy for Successful Investing”, p.24, W. W. Norton & Company

Burton Malkiel

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“I have always been clear that cinema is not my priority and that my family is.”
“If you do something that's really original, you discover why everybody else does it the other way, usually. There's a reason cliches exist, 'cause they work.”

Source : "Director Doug Liman Talks MTV’s I JUST WANT MY PANTS BACK, ALL YOU NEED IS KILL and EVEREST". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. February 1, 2012.
“I wouldnâ€™t swap Paul Scholes for anybody. He is quite simply the most complete footballer I have ever played with. He is the best.”
“Do not bring people in your life who weigh you down. And trust your instincts ... good relationships feel good. They feel right. They don't hurt. They're not painful. That's not just with somebody you want to marry, but it's with the friends that you choose. It's with the people you surround yourselves with.”

Source : Remarks by the First Lady at an Event with Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Students, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. May 25, 2011.
“Think of the millions of young men who died fighting for democracy. We spit on their graves when we let democracy slip away into the sewer of illegal money.”
“I - and I bet all the panelists here - truly believe that movies really can change the world.”
“On one level, I'm interested in how the space dictates the effect visually - how the composition of a given work changes depending on the nature of each wall. But I'm also trying to emphasize less tangible elements: the amount of time it takes to walk the gallery's perimeter; how one's physical distance affects his or her sense of the overall composition; how the size of the space creates a sense of visual rhythm. It's really a matter of seeing how much structure is necessary to impose for those things to become apparent.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“There is arguably something wrong with a method of persuasion that cannot pass the test of publicity.”

Source : Randal Marlin (2013). “Propaganda and the Ethics of Persuasion - Second Edition”, p.170, Broadview Press

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