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odds errors safety
No matter how careful you are, the one risk no investor can ever eliminate is the risk of being wrong. Only by insisting on what Graham called the "margin of safety" - never overpaying, no matter how exciting an investment seems to be - can you minimize your odds of error. Benjamin Graham
odds long actors
I'm always happy when actors get rich, because the odds on it are so long! Bill Nighy
odds house graves
I won’t bet $100 against house odds between now and the grave. Charlie Munger
odds law ideas
I know how to take good ideas and turn them into sensible law at great odds. Elizabeth Emken
odds generations stories
The bottom line: if you want a happier family, create, refine and retell the story of your family's positive moments and your ability to bounce back from the difficult ones. That act alone may increase the odds that your family will thrive for many generations to come. Bruce Feiler
odds patterns principles
The Heisenberg principle - If something is closely observed, the odds are it is going to be altered in the process. The more a price pattern is observed by speculators the more prone you have false signals; the more the market is a product of nonspeculative activity, the greater the significance of technical breakout Bruce Kovner
odds race survival
The human race may well become extinct before the end of the century. Speaking as a mathematician, I should say the odds are about three to one against survival. Bertrand Russell
odds swear truth
Odds life! must one swear to the truth of a song? Matthew Prior
odds three win
There are no secrets. We know what they like to do, they know what we like to do. We play them three times, and the odds are that we win at least one of those. John Wilson
atheism three wealth
The three great apostles of practical atheism, that make converts without persecuting, and retain them without preaching, are wealth, health and power. Charles Caleb Colton
atheism belief claims
Atheism is the lack of belief in a god (or gods). It makes no claim. It merely rejects the claim that a god (or gods) exists. Nothing more. Ricky Gervais
atheism facts opinion
Opinions don't affect facts. But facts should affect opinions, and do, if you're rational
atheism hobbies belief
Atheism is a belief system”, is like saying “not going skiing, is a hobby.
atheism doe world
As a social and as a personal force, religion has become a dependent variable. It does not originate; it reacts. It does not denounce; it adapts. It does not set forth new models of conduct and sensibility; it imitates. Its rhetoric is without deep appeal; the worship it organizes is without piety. It has become less a revitalization of the spirit in permanent tension with the world than a respectable distraction from the sourness of life. C. Wright Mills
atheism divine sovereignty
Opposition to divine sovereignty is essentially atheism. Charles Spurgeon
atheism movement goes-on
The stony-minded orthodox were right in fearing the first movement of new knowledge and free thought. It has gone on, and will go on, irresistibly, until some day we shall have no respect for an alleged "truth" which cannot stand the full blaze of knowledge, the full force of active thought. Charlotte Perkins Gilman
atheism affirmation made
Idle and meaningless ... a form less solemn to me than the affirmation I would have reverently made. Charles Bradlaugh
atheism public-opinion court
There is a court to which I shall appeal: the court of public opinion.
may traitor very-true
It is very true. But even a traitor may mend. I have known one who did. C. S. Lewis
may drink thirst
If you thirst you may drink.
may idiot lion-witch-wardrobe
I see you are an idiot, whatever else you may be...
may matter reason-why
But I see no reason why a woman should not grow and develop in all those outlets which are suited to her nature, it matters not at all what they may be. Agnes Smedley
may fool stories
Humans know when it's not a good story. Unless you do this for a living, you may not know exactly why you don't like a story, but you can't fool an audience ever. They know when you have it and they know when you don't. Aaron Sorkin
maybe mike mitchell player productive replace somewhat talented though trying
We were trying to replace some very talented kids. He was trying to replace the player of the year, which is never easy. Maybe our expectations were not what they should have been. I think he had a productive year, even though it was somewhat inconsistent to Mike Mitchell and Gavin Hoffman. Al Bagnoli
may mathematics mathematical
Mathematical reasoning may be regarded... Alan Turing
may attention talent
You may not have any extra talent, but maybe you are just paying more attention to what you are doing. Alan Shepard
may cost lovers
There is, in lovers, a certain infatuation of egotism; they will have a witness of their happiness, cost that witness what it may. Charlotte Bronte