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“It seems like a dangerous concept to have someone who's just your drinking buddy. Someone you have nothing in common with, if you're sober, is probably not a good, healthy friendship.”
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“maturity meant thinking about risk long before you pondered the reward, and that success and happiness in life were as much about avoiding mistakes as making your mark into the world.”
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“I think underneath it all [in the Big Funk] was a little bit of a Europeanness in it.”
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“What will matter is not your success but your significance....”
Source : "What Will Matter". Poem by Michael Josephson, www.huffingtonpost.com. 2003.
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“Be not too slow in the breaking of a sinful custom; a quick, courageous resolution is better than a gradual deliberation; in such a combat he is the bravest soldier that lays about him without fear or wit. Wit pleads, fear disheartens; he that would kill Hydra had better strike off one neck than five heads: fell the tree, and the branches are soon cut off.”
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“Nobody can predict interest rates, the future direction of the economy or the stock market. Dismiss all such forecasts and concentrate on what's actually happening to the companies in which you've invested”
Source : Peter Lynch (2012). “Beating the Street”, p.307, Simon and Schuster
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“People would ask me to autograph their bodies and then the next time I'd see them on tour they'd have my autograph tattooed. I decided I wouldn't write on people anymore, but I'd give them arms and legs and if they wanted those autographed I'd do that.”
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“Kids and adults have sex for many, many reasons... Put out a question box.”