"Investing is forgoing consumption now in order to have the ability to consume more at a later date."

-- Warren Buffett

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“You think Christianity is favorable to women? On the contrary. It is the Christian countries that have produced the prostitute and the most vile estimations of women in the world.”

Source : Dorothy Miller Richardson (1967). “Pilgrimage”
“The principal value of a garden is not understood. It is not to give the possessors vegetables and fruit (that can be better and cheaper done by the market-gardeners), but to teach him patience and philosophy, and the higher virtues - hope deferred, and expectations blighted, leading directly to resignation, and sometimes to alienation.”
“Action has meaning only in relationship, and without understanding relationship, action on any level will only breed conflict.”
“I believe in celebrating the female figure and embracing what we've been given, not hiding that.”
“The key to good decision making is not knowledge... It's whether our work fulfills us.”
“I was struggling to find a way to make evening clothes more deconstructed. I like to think that I translated the Latin concept in a more modern way. I don't think that I was that literal.”
“It may have been observed that there is no regular path for getting out of love as there is for getting in. Some people look upon marriage as a short cut that way, but it has been known to fail.”
“I still think about the letter you asked me to write. It nags at me, even though you're gone and there's no one to give it to anymore. Sometimes I work on it in my head, trying to map out the story you asked me to tell, about everything that happened this past fall and winter. It's all still there, like a movie I can watch when I want to. Which is never.”

Source : Rebecca Stead (2010). “When You Reach Me/First Light”, p.15, Wendy Lamb Books

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