"What you may seek and what you may find are not always one."

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Lloyd Alexander

“Pay mind to your own life, your own health, and wholeness. A bleeding heart is of no help to anyone if it bleeds to death.”
“Iâ€™m beginning to know myself. I donâ€™t exist. Iâ€™m the space between what Iâ€™d like to be and what others made of me. Just let me be at ease and all by myself in my room.”
“I take it that it is best for all to leave each man free to acquire property as fast as he can. Some will get wealthy. I dont believe in a law to prevent a man from getting rich; it would do more harm than good.”
“I don't think cops should wear mirrored sunglasses; the whole time the guy was chewing me out, all I could think was I should cut my bangs.”
“Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good. In area after area - crime, education, housing, race relations - the situation has gotten worse after the bright new theories were put into operation. The amazing thing is that this history of failure and disaster has neither discouraged the social engineers nor discredited them.”
“Behaviorists tell us that we tend to overweight and overreact to the most recently received information. If we do, we will find that the information that we thought was so important becomes tempered, and reduced in significance, by new and related information that follows.”

Source : "The Inefficient Stock Market - What Pays Off And Why". Book by Robert Haugen, Chapter 12, The Forces behind the Technical Payoffs to Price History, p. 121, 1999.
“Nature's a tranquilizer as you get older.”
“Money always changes the game, when you let a dollar come between you and your friends, your cohorts. You get a little money, and all of a sudden you get confused about who you are and how you fit into that.”

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