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• Value investing doesn't always work. The market doesn't always agree with you. Over time, value is roughly the way the market prices stocks, but over the short term, which sometimes can be as long as two or three years, there are periods when it doesn't work. And that is a very good thing. The fact that our value approach doesn't work over periods of time is precisely the reason why it continues to work over the long term.

  Joel Greenblatt

  Years, Two, Long

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• When you have Jessica Davenport in the middle, with some very, very good shooters around her and a good point guard, they have the pieces

  Theresa Grentz

  Pieces, Shooter, Middle

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• There’s nothing bad about reincarnation per se, it’s basically a very good system, cost-effective and ecologically friendly.

  Tom Holt

  Friendly, Cost, Reincarnation

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• People know that I am a very good author. But they would rather read what I have to say about the next election.

  Tatyana Tolstaya

  People, Next, Election

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• I had no cares. I was one of those kids: ‘If you laugh at me, laugh at me.’ I don’t have that censor, which is important in this business because you’re constantly told: ‘Gosh, you didn’t look very good. You don’t look pretty in that scene, or you didn’t do that right, or you’d look so much better if your hair looked lighter.’ You really have to have tough skin or you’d end up like a heaping, crying mess all the time.

  Danneel Ackles

  Kids, Hair, Laughing

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• We have very smart players and they've been fortunate to play for three very good coaches.

  Joe Dumars

  Smart, Player, Three

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• My very good friend, Rahm Emanuel, made it very clear to me on several occasions that I was, quote, unquote, not a team player; that I was not - that I didn't not have a future.

  Eric Massa

  Team, Good Friend, Player

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• To be a saint is to be a little out of one's mind, which is a very good thing to be a little out of from time to time. It is to live a life that is always giving itself away and yet is always full.

  Frederick Buechner

  Giving, Mind, Saint

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• In daily life we must see that it is not happiness that makes us grateful, but gratefulness that makes us happy. It is necessary, then, to cultivate the habit of being grateful for every good thing that comes to you, and to give thanks continuously. And because all things have contributed to your advancement, you should include all things in your gratitude.

  Wallace D. Wattles

  Thankful, Appreciation, Gratitude

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• I so enjoy being old because for the first time I don't have to do anything-work, teach, study. I feel very good about myself-and at my age I can say no to anything now if I don't want to do it. What a liberating word.

  Bel Kaufman

  Age, Want, Firsts

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• That's universal - we all want to bring every good thing to our children. But what's not universal is our ability to provide every good thing.

  Melinda Gates

  Children, Motivation, Inspiration

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• It takes fifteen pounds of wild fish to get you one pound of farm tuna. Not very sustainable. It doesn't taste very good either.

  Dan Barber

  Motivation, Inspiration, Tuna

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• There's very good evidence that the average cat in Europe has a larger environmental footprint in its lifetime than the average African.

  Jason W Clay

  Motivation, Inspiration, Cat

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• I want to direct but I think I'd be bloody awful and I don't want to produce but I think I'd be a very good producer because if I believed in something I'd be able to protect it.

  Christopher Eccleston

  Thinking, Want, Able

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

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• Many people don't know, but American Girl Scouts get to travel the world, and that's a very good thing, as the more we can expose our young people to other cultures, the better off we'll be in this increasingly globalized environment.

  Anna Maria Chavez

  Girl, Other Cultures, People

  "It’s All About Doing Some Thinking on This Very Special Day" by Anna Maria Chavez, www.huffingtonpost.com.

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• A dog is grateful for what is, which I am finding to be the soundest kind of wisdom and very good theology.

  Carrie Newcomer

  Dog, Grateful, Kind

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• Mack Bolan is a classic American hero. Readers like him and I feel very good about that.

  Don Pendleton

  Hero, Classic, Mack

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• It turns out we're very good at not seeing things

  Jack Hitt

  Turns, Seeing

  Interview with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. July 5, 2012.

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• Dear Internet: You are very good at spreading rumors. Truth is more valuable and much harder to come by.

  Mark Frost

  Rumor, Internet, Truth Is

  Twitter post from Jan 2, 2013

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• Sometimes, if you want to be happy, you've got to run away to Bath and marry a punk rocker. Sometimes you've got to dye your hair cobalt blue, or wander remote islands in Sicily, or cook your way through Mastering the Art of French Cooking in a year, for no very good reason.

  Julie Powell

  Running, Art, Hair

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• Consider spending less time talking, and more time prototyping, especially if you're not very good at talking.

  Paul Buchheit

  Talking, More Time, Spending

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• I think that the basic philosophy was very good. It was just be nice to each other, and don't step on other people's toes and infringe on their freedom.

  Kevin Ayers

  Philosophy, Nice, Thinking

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• Every good thing depends on getting and keeping the power of the Holy Ghost in our lives. Everything depends on that.

  Lawrence E. Corbridge

  Ghost, Holy, Good Things

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• Well, I think if more people had more applause, it would make them feel better. I often give my wife a round of applause. If the meal is very good I give her a standing ovation.

  Tom Baker

  Feel Better, Thinking, People

  "Interview: Doctor Who star Tom Baker". Interview with Paul Whitelaw, www.scotsman.com. August 20, 2009.

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• Sending children away to get control of their anger perpetuates the feeling of 'badness" inside them...Chances are they were already feeling not very good about themselves before the outburst and the isolation just serves to confirm in their own minds that they were right.

  Otto Weininger

  Children, Feelings, Mind

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