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• The bottom line: All of your investing decisions should be grounded in your own investment policy statement. By taking a "top-down" look at your finances and writing out a road map, your policy statement will add an important element of discipline to your approach.

  Lewis Schiff

  Writing, Top Down, Discipline

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• Having become conscious of the truth he once perceived, man now sees only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence, he now understands the symbolic element in Ophelia's fate, he now recognizes the wisdom of the woodland god, Silenus: it nauseates him.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Fate, Men, Nausea

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• If all were as it seems, and men made the elements their servants for noble ends!

  Henry David Thoreau

  Truth, Science, Men

  Henry David Thoreau, John C. Broderick, Robert Sattelmeyer (1981). “Journal”, p.358, Princeton University Press

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• The mind is a finer body, and resumes its functions of feeding, digesting, absorbing, excluding, and generating, in a new and ethereal element. Here, in the brain, is all the process of alimentation repeated, in the acquiring, comparing, digesting, and assimilating of experience. Here again is the mystery of generation repeated.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Brain, Mind, Generations

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.359

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• Women, more than all, are the element and kingdom of illusion. Being fascinated, they fascinate.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Women, Kingdoms, Illusion

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1860). “Power, Wealth, Illusions”, p.96

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• Taking people on a journey is the fundamental element of underground dance music. I don't sell records.

  Seth Troxler

  Journey, People, Fundamentals

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• Every one who understands the subject will agree that even the basis on which the scientific explanation of nature rests is intelligible only to those who have learned at least the elements of the differential and integral calculus, as well as analytical geometry.

  Felix Klein

  Calculus, Geometry, Explanation

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• A book is a fragile creature. It suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements, clumsy hands.

  Umberto Eco

  Book, Hands, Suffering

  Umberto Eco (1994). “The Name of the Rose”, p.42, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Marriage is tough, because it is woven of all these various elements, the weak and the strong. "In love-ness" is fragile for it is woven only with the gossamer threads of beauty. It seems to me absurd to talk about "happy" and "unhappy" marriages.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Strong, Unhappy, Woven

  "War Within and Without". Book by Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 1980.

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• Nature confounds her summer distinctions at this season. The heavens seem to be nearer the earth. The elements are less reserved and distinct. Water turns to ice, rain to snow. The day is but a Scandinavian night. The winter is an arctic summer.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Summer, Nature, Rain

  Henry David Thoreau (1992). “The Essays of Henry David Thoreau”, p.108, Rowman & Littlefield

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• It is the last lesson of modern science, that the highest simplicity of structure is produced, not by few elements, but by the highest complexity.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Science, Simplicity, Lessons

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1659, Delphi Classics

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• We are amphibious creatures, weaponed for two elements, having two sets of faculties, the particular and the catholic.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Two, Catholic, Humanity

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.264, Harvard University Press

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• I think we left out one of the really important elements contributing to the dynamism of society, and that is the right to privacy. I mean something more than the right to shave in private. I mean the right to join what I want to join, to do what I want to do, or not to do what I might do without giving anyone a reason, either in advance or afterwards. That does not mean that I am seeking for irresponsibility socially.

  Chester Barnard

  Mean, Thinking, Rights

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• The principle of fashion is . . . the principle of the kaleidoscope. A new year can only bring us a new combination of the same elements; and about once in so often we go back and begin again.

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould

  New Year, Fashion, Years

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• Resolutions expressing Parliamentary approval of every Treaty before ratification would be a very cumbersome form of procedure and would burden the House with a lot of unnecessary business. The absence of disapproval may be accepted as sanction, and publicity and opportunity for discussion and criticism are the really material and valuable elements which henceforth will be introduced.

  Arthur Ponsonby, 1st Baron Ponsonby of Shulbrede

  Opportunity, House, Criticism

  Statement, April 1, 1924.

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• While all bodies are composed of the four elements, that is, of heat, moisture, the earthy, and air, yet there are mixtures according to natural temperament which make up the natures of all the different animals of the world, each after its kind.

  Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

  Animal, Air, Four Elements

  "De architectura". Book by Vitruvius. Book I, Chapter IV, Section 5,

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• Nothing suffers annihilation, but at dissolution there is a change, and things fall back to the essential element in which they were before.

  Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

  Fall, Suffering, Essentials

  "The Ten Books On Architecture". Book VII. Introduction, Sec. 1, 15BC.

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• The larch... is not only preserved from decay and the worm by the great bitterness of its sap, but also it cannot be kindled with fire nor ignite of itself, unless like stone in a limekiln it is burned with other wood... This is because there is a very small proportion of the elements of fire and air in its composition, which is a dense and solid mass of moisture and the earthy, so that it has no open pores through which fire can find its way... Further, its weight will not let it float in water.

  Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

  Fire, Air, Water

  "De architectura (Ten Books on Architecture)". Book by Marcus Vitruvius Pollio (Book II, Chapter IX, Section 14), circa 15 BC.

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• Speculation in oil stock companies was another great evil ... From the first, oil men had to contend with wild fluctuations in the price of oil. ... Such fluctuations were the natural element of the speculator, and he came early, buying in quantities and holding in storage tanks for higher prices. If enough oil was held, or if the production fell off, up went the price, only to be knocked down by the throwing of great quantities of stocks on the market.

  Ida Tarbell

  Men, Buying In, Oil

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• There is a tyrannical element in all fanaticism, an element which makes opposition a torment.

  Mary Augusta Ward

  Torment, Opposition, Fanaticism

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• Every American, to the last man, lays claim to a "sense" of humor and guards it as his most significant spiritual trait, yet rejects humor as a contaminating element wherever found. America is a nation of comics and comedians; nevertheless, humor has no stature and is accepted only after the death of the perpetrator.

  E. B. White

  Funny, Spiritual, Men

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• One God, one law, one element,
  And one far-off divine event,
  To which the whole creation moves.

  Alfred the Great

  Moving, Destiny, Law

  In Memoriam epilogue, st. 36 (1850)

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• While, politically, a mixed economy preserves the semblance of an organized society with a semblance of law and order, economically it is the equivalent of the chaos that had ruled China for centuries: a chaos of robber gangs looting-and draining-the productive elements of the country.

  Ayn Rand

  Country, Order, Law

  Ayn Rand, Nathaniel Branden, Alan Greenspan, Robert Hessen (1986). “Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal”, p.197, Penguin

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• The spirit of a government must be that of the country. The form of a government must come from the makeup of the country. Government is nothing but the balance of the natural elements of a country.

  Jose Marti

  Country, Makeup, Government

  "Our America". Essay by Jose Marti, 1891.

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• The ideal, after all, is true than the real: for the ideal is the eternal element in perishable things.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Real, Idealism, Ideals

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