"Just as many smart people fail in the investment business as stupid ones. Intellectually active people are particularly attracted to elegant concepts, which can have the effect of distracting them from the simpler, more fundamental truths."

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Source : "There's Always Something to Do", www.businessinsider.com. May 9, 2011.

Peter Cundill

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“Youth is the spring-time of life. It is the time to acquire information, so that we may show it off in after years and paralyze people with what we know.”
“Though we live amid promiscuous pressures, spiritual clutter and forgetfulness, we probably still value the integrity of life.”
“There is a big misconception about arranged marriage. Yes, it can mean that you meet someone and then have to marry them, but this was my mother saying, 'I'm going to introduce you to so-and-so - If you don't like them, fair enough.”
“Salvation is the entire universe being brought back into harmony with its maker.”
“For the first time in history we can track the evolution of a pandemic in real time. Influenza viruses are notorious for their rapid mutation and unpredictable behaviour.”
“Success is a great deodorant. It takes away all your past smells.”
“In those moments when priorities clash always stay guided by your values, not your perceived necessities.”
“When you head on out to the Moon, in very short order, and you get a chance to look back at the Earth, that horizon slowly curves around in upon himself, and all of sudden you're looking at something that is very strange, but yet is very, very familiar, because you're beginning to see the Earth evolve.”

Source : "In the Shadow of the Moon", www.imdb.com. 2007.

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