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Economic progress means the discovery and application of better ways of doing things to satisfy our wants. The piping of water to a household that previously dragged it from a well, the growing of two blades of grass where one grew before, the development of a power loom that enables one man to weave ten times as much as he could before, the use of steam power and electric power instead of horse or human power - all these things clearly represent economic progress.

Kenneth E. Boulding

Horse, Mean, Men

"Principles of Economic Policy". Book by Kenneth Ewart Boulding, p. 23, 1958.

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It's got to be the best intellectual exercise out there. You're seeing through new situations every ten minutes. In the stock market you don't base your decisions on what the market is doing, but on what you think is rational. Bridge is about weighing gain/loss ratios. You're doing calculations all the time.

Warren Buffett

Loss, Exercise, Thinking

"The Warren Buffett Portfolio: Mastering the Power of the Focus Investment Strategy". Book by Robert G. Hagstrom (p. 112), 2000.

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Your anger is like a flower. In the beginning you may not understand the nature of your anger, or why it has come up. But if you know how to embrace it with the energy of mindfulness, it will begin to open. You may be sitting, following your breathing, or you may be practicing walking meditation to generate the energy of mindfulness and embrace your anger. After ten or twenty minutes your anger will have to open herself to you, and suddenly, you will see the true nature of your anger. It may have arisen just because of a wrong perception or the lack of skillfulness.

Nhat Hanh

Flower, Anger, Walking Meditation

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Historically, the stock market is like a gambling casino with the odds in your favor. Over the long pull, stocks are given something like nine and a half to ten percent compounded per year. The banks have probably given you something in the order of four to five.

Burton Malkiel

Gambling, Odds, Order

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The more I see of the country, the less I feel I know about it. There is a saying that after five years in the north every man is an expert; after ten years, a novice.

Pierre Berton

Country, Men, Years

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If the growth rate is so good that in another ten years the company might well have quadrupled, is it really of such great concern whether at the moment the stock might or might not be 35% overpriced?

Philip Arthur Fisher

Years, Growth, Investing

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The nation should be ruled by the Ten Commandments.

Theodore Roosevelt

Religion, Should, Ten Commandments

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With each investment you make, you should have the courage and the conviction to place at least ten per cent of your net worth in that stock

Warren Buffett

Should Have, Investment, Conviction

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I fear John Knox's prayers more than an army of ten thousand men.

Mary, Queen of Scots

Prayer, Army, Men

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I love idleness. I love to busy myself about trifles, to begin a hundred things and not finish one of them, to come and go as my fancy bids me, to change my plan every moment, to follow a fly in all its circlings, to try and uproot a rock to see what is underneath, eagerly to begin a ten-years' task to give it up after ten minutes: in short, to fritter away the whole day inconsequentially and incoherently, and to follow nothing but the whim of the moment.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Rocks, Years, Giving

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During the ten years I lived in the U.K., I frequently attended an Anglican church just outside of London. I enjoyed the energetic singing and the thoughtful homilies. And yet, I found it easy to be a pew warmer, a consumer, a back row critic.

Gary Hamel

Thoughtful, Years, Singing

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When you're in a start-up, the first ten people will determine whether the company succeeds or not. Each is 10 percent of the company. So why wouldn't you take as much time as necessary to find all the A players? If three were not so great, why would you want a company where 30 percent of your people are not so great? A small company depends on great people much more than a big company does.

Steve Jobs

Player, People, Doe

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Life is very narrow. Bring any club or company of intelligent men together again after ten years, and if the presence of some penetrating and calming genius could dispose them to frankness, what a confession of insanities would come up!

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Intelligent, Men, Years

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.387

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A girl, if she has any pride, is so ashamed of having anything she wishes to say out of the hearing of her own family, she thinks it must be something so very wrong, that it is ten to one,
if she have the opportunity of saying it, that she will not.

Florence Nightingale

Girl, Pride, Opportunity

Ray Strachey, Florence Nightingale (1930). “Struggle: the stirring story of woman's advance in England”

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We are shut up in school and college recitation rooms for ten to fifteen years, and come out at last with a bellyful of words and do not know a thing. We cannot use our hands, or our legs, or our eyes, or our arms. We do not know an edible root in the woods. We cannot tell our course by the stars, nor the hour of day by the sun. It is well if we can swim and skate. We are afraid of a horse or a cow, of a dog, of a cat, of a spider. Far better was the Roman rule to teach a boy nothing that he could not learn standing.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Dog, Horse, Stars

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Walt McLaughlin (2010). “The Laws of Nature: Excerpts from the Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.34, North Atlantic Books

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Walk ten meters, you will find the lust; walk thousand miles, you may find the love! Soil is everywhere; but gold is somewhere!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

Love, Lust, Gold

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The legendary Buddhist flower udumbara is believed to blossom once every three millennia! What about the Flower of Peace? In every ten million years?

Mehmet Murat Ildan

Peace, Buddhist, Flower

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Man! What are you? Who are you? Just a shadow in this universe! You always forget this and the truth will always remind you what you really are! Do you want to be a real thing, not just a shadow? Improve your science ten thousand times; improve your science hundred thousand times! If you can't improve your science, you will remain as a miserable shadow!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

Real, Science, Men

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I could be stranded in any town in the United States with ten cents and within an hour make $20 with the shell game.

W. C. Fields

Games, United States, Shells

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In the ten years since I had run away from home...I had gone through more strange experiences than the average person crowds into a whole lifetime.

W. C. Fields

Running, Home, Average

"DVD Retro Rec: The W.C. Fields Comedy Collection" by Mark Bourne, www.mtv.com. September 29, 2008.

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A new medical study reports that men who eat ten pizzas a week are less likely to develop prostate problems at age 50. That's because they are usually dead by age 40.

Jay Leno

Men, Age, Medical

"Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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You are ten times more likely to get hit by a car when the driver is aiming for you.

Demetri Martin

Car, Drivers

Demetri Martin (2011). “This Is A Book”, p.55, Penguin UK

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To a sprinter, the hundred-yard dash is over in three seconds, not nine or ten.

Jesse Owens

Nine, Yards, Three

Jesse Owens, Paul G. Neimark (1972). “I Have Changed”

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Ten thousand years as Intercontinental Champion, Oooooh yeeeah!

Randy Savage

Years, Champion, Thousand

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Ten million years will not put a strain on the clock of eternity.

Leonard Ravenhill

Years, Eternity, Clock

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