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• A pin lies in wait for every bubble. And when the two eventually meet, a new wave of investors learns some very old lessons: First, many in Wall Street (a community in which quality control is not prized) will sell investors anything they will buy. Second, speculation is most dangerous when it looks easiest.

  Warren Buffett

  Wall, Lying, Knowledge

  Chairman's Letter, www.berkshirehathaway.com. February 28, 2001.

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• It is important not to suppress your feelings altogether when you are depressed. It is equally important to avoid terrible arguments or expressions of outrage. You should steer clear of emotionally damaging behavior. People forgive, but it is best not to stir things up to the point at which forgiveness is required. When you are depressed, you need the love of other people, and yet depression fosters actions that destroy that love. Depressed people often stick pins into their own life rafts. The conscious mind can intervene. One is not helpless.

  Andrew Solomon

  Depression, Expression, People

  Andrew Solomon (2014). “The Noonday Demon: An Atlas Of Depression”, p.110, Simon and Schuster

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• We have the illusion of freedom only because so few ever try to exercise it. Try it sometime. Try to save your home from the highway crowd, or to work a trade without the approval of the goons, or to open a little business without a permit, or to grow a crop without a quota, or to educate your child the way you want to, or to not have a child. We all have the freedom of a balloon floating in a pin factory.

  Karl Hess

  Children, Home, Exercise

  "From Far Right to Far Left". The New York Times Magazine, (p. 305), Decemebr 6, 1970.

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• The important thing in my view is not to pin the blame for a mistake on somebody, but rather to find out what caused the mistake.

  Akio Morita

  Mistake, Views, Important

  "The future of labor-management cooperative programs" by John Raymond Phillips, (p. 149), 1986.

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• My son's 18, 142 pounds and hits it 40 (yards) by me. Instead of to the pin, he's lasering the distance between me and him.

  Fred Funk

  Distance, Son, Yards

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• Not everything that counts can be counted. You can count sales. You can count fans and followers. You can count pins and tweets. But you can't count passion. You can't count commitment. You can't count engagement. You can't count relationships.

  John Kremer

  Book, Commitment, Passion

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• The English scene got more media attention with their emphasis on fashion, with the safety pins and all. There were some really good bands over there. The Sex Pistols were great.

  Greg Ginn

  Fashion, Sex, Media

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• There is no essential difference between sticking pins into a wax image of an enemy and burning candles in front of a wax image of the Virgin. You may think that both these practices are gross superstition, but you can hardly think that one is real and potent and deny reality and potency to the other.

  Dion Fortune

  Real, Thinking, Practice

  Dion Fortune (2016). “Psychic self-defense: The Classic Instruction Manual for Protecting Yourself Against Paranormal Attack”, p.13, Dion Fortune

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• Do I look like a sex-symbol or a pin-up boy? It's just that my father presented me like a dream.

  Hrithik Roshan

  Dream, Sex, Father

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• A man, a plan, a canoe, pasta, heros, rajahs, a coloratura, maps, snipe, percale, macaroni, a gag, a banana bag, a tan, a tag, a banana bag again (or a camel), a crepe, pins, Spam, a rut, a Rolo, cash, a jar, sore hats, a peon, a canal - Panama

  Guy Steele

  Hero, Men, Camels

  Guy Steele (1990). “Common LISP: The Language”, p.406, Elsevier

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• Enough. Sudden enough. Sudden all far. No move and sudden all far. All least. Three pins. One pinhole. In dimmost dim. Vasts apart. At bounds of boundless void. Whence no farther. Best worse no farther. Nohow less. Nohow worse. Nohow naught. Nohow on.

  Samuel Beckett

  Moving, Three, Void

  Samuel Beckett (2012). “Company / Ill Seen Ill Said / Worstward Ho / Stirrings Still”, p.68, Faber & Faber

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• When well told, a story captured the subtle movement of change. If a novel was a map of a country, a story was the bright silver pin that marked the crossroads.

  Ann Patchett

  Country, Stories, Movement

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• What is success? It is a toy balloon among children armed with pins.

  Gene Fowler

  Success, Children, Toys

  "Skyline: A Reporter's Reminiscence of the 1920s". Book by Gene Fowler, 1961.

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• Sometimes if somebody you feel you need... the whole universe tells you that you have to have her, you start watching her favorite TV shows all night, you start buying her the things she needs, you start drinking her drinks, you start smoking her bad cigarettes, you start picking up her nuances in her voice, you sleep in safe sometimes the most dangerous thing... this is called Mojo Pin.

  Jeff Buckley

  Drinking, Sleep, Night

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• You take five fingers. Individually, I can pin any one of them, but if I pin them together (makes a fist), it's damn near impossible to turn this around.

  Ray Lewis

  Inspirational Life, Together, Fists

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• So I asked him to play "Trav'lin' All Alone." That came closer than anything to the way I felt. And some part of it must have come across. The whole joint quieted down. If someone had dropped a pin, it would have sounded like a bomb. When I finished, everybody in the joint was crying in their beer, and I picked thirty-eight bucks up off the floor. . . . When I showed Mom the money for the rent and told her I had a regular job singing for eighteen dollars a week, she could hardly believe it.

  Billie Holiday

  Mom, Jobs, Believe

  Billie Holiday, William Dufty (2011). “Lady Sings the Blues: The 50th-Anniversay Edition with a Revised Discography”, p.45, Broadway Books

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• I don't know how many thoughts we have a second, but it's quite an amazing number, and just to pin down the appropriate sequence of those, all you really need is a pencil and a piece of paper.

  Robert Wyatt

  Numbers, Needs, Pieces

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• To pin your hopes upon the future is to consign those hopes to a hypothesis, which is to say, a nothingness. Here and now is what we must contend with.

  Angela Carter

  Literature, Hypothesis, Here And Now

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• There's kind of a Zen aspect to bowling. The pins are either staying up or down before you even throw your arm back. It's kind of a mind-set. You want to be in this perfect mind-set before you released the ball.

  Jeff Bridges

  Perfect, Mind, Want

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• If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon shots.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Peace, War, Want

  "Libretto for the Republic of Liberia". Book by Melvin Beaunorus Tolson, 1953.

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• Look in the mirror. The face that pins you with its double gaze reveals a chastening secret.

  Diane Ackerman

  Mirrors, Knowing Who You Are, Keeping Secrets

  "A Natural History of the Senses". Book by Diane Ackerman, 1991.

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• My way is to seize an image the moment it has formed in my mind, to trap it as a bird and to pin it at once to canvas. Afterward I start to tame it, to master it. I bring it under control and I develop it.

  Joan Miro

  Bird, Mind, Way

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• They say that nameless things change constantly—that names fix them in place like pins.

  Holly Black

  Names, Things Change, Nameless

  Holly Black (2012). “Ironside”, p.175, Simon and Schuster

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• I was feeling lonely without her, but the fact that I could feel lonely at all was consolation. Loneliness wasn't such a bad feeling. It was like the stillness of the pin oak after the little birds had flown off.

  Haruki Murakami

  Lonely, Loneliness, Bird

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Apr 10, 2015

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• You know, the truth is that right after 9/11, I had a (flag) pin. Shortly after 9/11, particularly because as we're talking about the Iraq war, that became a substitute for, I think, true patriotism, which is speaking out on issues that are of importance to our national security, I decided I won't wear that pin on my chest.

  Barack Obama

  War, Thinking, Talking

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