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• There is a certain period of the soul-culture when it begins to interfere with some of characters of typical beauty belonging to the bodily frame, the stirring of the intellect wearing down the flesh, and the moral enthusiasm burning its way out to heaven, through the emaciation of the earthen vessel; and there is, in this indication of subduing the mortal by the immortal part, an ideal glory of perhaps a purer and higher range than that of the more perfect material form. We conceive, I think, more nobly of the weak presence of Paul than of, the fair and ruddy countenance of David.

  John Ruskin

  Beauty, Character, Thinking

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• Here's one truth that perhaps your typical investment counselor would disagree with: if you're comfortably rich and someone else is getting richer faster than you by, for example, investing in risky stocks, so what?! Someone will always be getting richer faster than you. This is not a tragedy.

  Charlie Munger

  Tragedy, Example, Investing

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• The typical fund company services 401k plan participants in the same way that Baby Face Nelson serviced banks.

  William J. Bernstein

  Baby, Way, Faces

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• Im a typical Capricorn. Im hardworking, loyal, sometimes stubborn, and I dont believe in astrology.

  Jonah Peretti

  Believe, Astrology, Capricorns

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• Certainly the most obvious . . . example of the strictly infantile essence of America's all-conquering mentality greets our eyes daily, anywhere and everywhere, in the guise of the tabloid newspaper. The tabloid newspaper actually means to the typical American of the era what the Bible is popularly supposed to have meant to the typical Pilgrim Father: viz. a very present help in times of trouble, plus a means of keeping out of trouble via harmless, since vicarious, indulgence in the pomps and vanities of this wicked world.

  e. e. cummings

  Father, Mean, Eye

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• I'm using myself as a typical 20th century model as I'm trying to make sense out of the world around me.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Trying, World, Century

  "Robert Anton Wilson on Wilhelm Reich". Interview, March 1995.

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• The typical response from people when I tell them Im diabetic is, Oh, Im sorry to hear that. You know, Im not. Im a better athlete because of diabetes rather than despite it. Im more aware of my training, my fitness and more aware of nutrition. Im more proactive about my health.

  Charlie Kimball

  Im Sorry, Athlete, People

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• Experience conclusively shows that index-fund buyers are likely to obtain results exceeding those of the typical fund manager, whose large advisory fees and substantial portfolio turnover tend to reduce investment yields. Many people will find the guarantee of playing the stock-market game at par every round a very attractive one. The index fund is a sensible, serviceable method for obtaining the market's rate of return with absolutely no effort and minimal expense.

  Burton Malkiel

  Yield, Games, People

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• Sexist language, racist language, theistic language - all are typical of the policing languages of mastery, and cannot, do not, permit new knowledge or encourage the mutual exchange of ideas.

  Toni Morrison

  Ideas, Racism, Mastery

  Nobel Prize for Literature Lecture, delivered 7 December 1993

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• It doesn't set off any alarm bells. As is typical with T. Rowe, no transition comes about abruptly; they tend to be planned pretty well.

  Bill Vaughan

  Alarms, Transition, Bells

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• It is typical, in America, that a person's hometown is not the place where he is living now but is the place he left behind.

  Margaret Mead

  Roots, America, United States

  Margaret Mead, Rhoda Bubendey Métraux (1970). “A way of seeing”

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• There are as many atoms in one molecule of DNA as there are stars in a typical galaxy.

  Carl Sagan

  Stars, Dna, Molecules

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• I can't believe I've turned into a typical old man. I can't believe it. I was young just minutes ago.

  Maurice Sendak

  Believe, Men, Minutes

  Interview with Emma Brockes, www.believermag.com. November/December 2012.

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• The typical lawmaker of today is a man wholly devoid of principle - a mere counter in a grotesque and knavish game. If the right pressure could be applied to him, he would be cheerfully in favor of polygamy, astrology or cannibalism.

  H. L. Mencken

  Men, Astrology, Games

  H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.261, Vintage

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• I am an adherent of the ideal of democracy, although I well know the weaknesses of the democratic form of government. Social equality and economic protection of the individual appeared to me always as the important communal aims of the state. Although I am a typical loner in daily life, my consciousness of belonging to the invisible community of those who strive for truth, beauty, and justice has preserved me from feeling isolated.

  Albert Einstein

  Government, Justice, Community

  "My credo" by Albert Einstein, 1932.

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• You know the typical crowd, Wow, it’s Friday night, what are you going to do? Just sit there? Well, yeah. Because there’s nothing out there. It’s stupidity. Stupid people mingling with stupid people. Let them stupidify themselves. I’ve never been bothered with the need to rush out into the night. That’s all. Sorry for all the millions, but I’ve never been lonely. I like myself. I’m the best form of entertainment I have.

  Charles Bukowski

  Friday, Lonely, Sorry

  Charles Bukowski (2003). “Sunlight Here I Am: Interviews and Encounters, 1963-1993”

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• If a man has character, he has also his typical experience, which always recurs.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Character, Men, Ifs

  Friedrich Nietzsche “Writings of Nietzsche: Volume 1”, Lulu.com

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