"A ship without Marines is like a garment without buttons."

-- David Dixon Porter

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“Astronomers are spherical bastards. No matter how you look at them they are just bastards.”
“He's not going to look back if you don't,' he said, 'They're the most forgiving creatures God ever made.”

Source : Nicholas Evans (1996). “The Horse Whisperer”, Thorndike Pr
“The horse has such a docile nature, that he would always rather do right the wrong, if he can only be taught to distinguish one from the other.”
“The essence of Hinduism is the same essence of all true religions: Bhakti or pure love for God and genuine compassion for all beings.”
“Whenever I enter a position, I have a predetermined stop. That is the only way I can sleep. I know where I'm getting out before I get in. The position size on a trade is determined by the stop, and the stop is determined on a technical basis. I never think about other people who may be using the same stop, because the market shouldn't go there if I am right”

Source : "Market Wizards: Interviews with Top Traders". Book by Jack D. Schwager, 1989.
“Man's chief enemy is his own unruly nature and the dark forces put up within him.”
“In our generation there is no agreed-upon framework. All issues are up for grabs. Morality no longer has any broad-based theology upon which to rest its case. We are no longer a 'Christian nation,' not even a 'Judeo-Christian culture.'”
“You think it will never happen to you, that it cannot happen to you, that you are the only person in the world to whom none of these things will ever happen, and then, one by one, they all begin to happen to you, in the same way they happen to everyone else.”

Source : Paul Auster (2012). “Winter Journal”, p.6, Faber & Faber

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