"But in practice, if often comes down to not suffering a loss as big as the huge gain you made a while ago."

-- Merton Miller

#Loss Quotes #Practice Quotes #Suffering Quotes

“If you are not financially independent by the time you are forty or fifty, it doesn't mean that you are living in the wrong country or at the wrong time. It simply means that you have the wrong plan.”
“I still take failure very seriously, but I've found that the only way I could overcome the feeling is to keep on working, and trying to benefit from failures or disappointments. There are always some lessons to be learned. So I keep on working.”

Source : "Presidential Medal of Freedom". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. April 11, 1991.
“Last night I went out for Chinese. I picked up a Team USA Olympic uniform.”
“If you go to Bed Bath & Beyond without a coupon, people will wonder if you're OK.”
“Better to trust the man who is frequently in error than the one who is never in doubt.”
“Words not only affect us temporarily; they change us, they socialize or unsocialize us.”

Source : David Riesman (1950). “The Lonely Crowd: A Study of the Changing American Character”
“One must bear in mind that the expansion of federal activity is a form of eating for politicians.”
“I'm afraid of habit patterns It would be too much of a routine if you had to establish definite ways of getting through things. You'd get very bored.”

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