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“Amateurs look for challenges; professionals look for easy trades. Losers get high from the action; the pros look for the best odds.”
Source : Alexander Elder (2002). “Come Into My Trading Room: A Complete Guide to Trading”, p.12, John Wiley & Sons
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“It is quite clear that beauty does depend on one's culture and upbringing for certain kinds of beauty, pictures, literature, poetry and so on...But mathematical beauty is of a rather different kind. I should say perhaps it is of a completely different kind and transcends these personal factors. It is the same in all countries and at all periods of time.”
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“There are plenty of fish in the sea, if I run out of women.”
Source : "A Softer World". Webcomic by Joey Comeau,
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“Let's face the music and dance.”
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“I lay in my bed night after night staring at the ceiling and thinking, Why have I survived the war? Why was I the last person in my immediate family to be alive? I didn’t know.”
Source : Ishmael Beah (2007). “A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier”, p.179, Macmillan
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“The best ideas come as jokes. Make your thinking as funny as possible.”
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“The key metric of whether you've succeeded is what fraction of your employees use that dashboard everyday.”
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“Honeymoons are the beginning of wisdom--but the beginning of wisdom is the end of romance.”
Source : Paul Kurtz (1986). “The Transcendental Temptation: A Critique of Religion and the Paranormal”
