"It is frequently the tragedy of the great artist, as it is of the great scientist, that he frightens the ordinary man."

-- Loren Eiseley

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“You have a choice. Live or die. Every breath is a choice. Every minute is a choice. To be or not to be.”
“One shouldnt ask oneself how a person flies or why, but simply start flying.”
“It's wrong to hate. It always has been wrong and it always will be wrong. It's wrong in America, it's wrong in Germany, it's wrong in Russia, it's wrong in China. It was wrong in 2000 B.C., and it's wrong in 1954 A.D. It always has been wrong, and it always will be wrong.”
“If you ask people what they've always wanted to do, most people haven't done it. That breaks my heart.”
“A half finished shawl left on the coffee table isn't a mess; it's an object of art.”
“The false pride of perennial celebration, of wearing flag lapel pins while betraying the values that the flag stands for, is like the self-esteem curriculum for toddlers, where everything is praised and no achievement ultimately has meaning.”

Source : "Patriotism and Michelle Obama: A 4th of July Reflection" by Anne-Marie Slaughter, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 11, 2008.
“Where you want to be is always in control, never wishing, always trading, and always first and foremost protecting your ass. That's why most people lose money as individual investors or traders because they're not focusing on losing money. They need to focus on the money that they have at risk and how much capital is at risk in any single investment they have. If everyone spent 90 percent of their time on that, not 90 percent of the time on pie-in-the-sky ideas on how much money they're going to make, then they will be incredibly successful investors.”
“It is an oversimplification to say that the opposite of irony is oversimplification.”

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