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• At Berkshire, I both initiate and monitor every derivatives contract on our books ... If Berkshire ever gets in trouble, it will be my fault. It will not be because of the misjudgments made by a risk committee or chief risk officer.

  Warren Buffett

  Book, Risk, Faults

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• I was named Margaret Yvonne - Margaret because my mother was very fond of one of the derivatives of the name. She was fascinated at the time by the movie star Baby Peggy, and I suppose she wanted a Baby Peggy of her own.

  Yvonne De Carlo

  Mother, Baby, Stars

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

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• We divorced ourselves from the materials of the earth, the rock, the wood, the iron ore; we looked to new materials which were cooked in vats, long complex derivatives of urine which we called plastic. They had no odor of the living, ... their touch was alien to nature. ... [They proliferated] like the matastases of cancer cells.

  Norman Mailer

  Life, Nature, Cancer

  Norman Mailer (1968). “The idol and the octopus: political writings, on the Kennedy and Johnson administrations”

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• Very little in science fiction can transcend the gimmickry of a technical conceit, yet without that conceit at its heart a book is not truly science fiction. Furthermore, so little emerging thought and technology is employed by sf writers today that the genre is lagging far behind reality both in the cosmology area and the technology area: sf is no longer a place to experiment, but is now very derivative.

  Janet Morris

  Book, Heart, Technology

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• God has no needs. Human love, as Plato teaches us, is the child of Poverty – of want or lack; it is caused by a real or supposed goal in its beloved which the lover needs and desires. But God's love, far from being caused by goodness in the object, causes all the goodness which the object has, loving it first into existence, and then into real, though derivative, lovability. God is Goodness. He can give good, but cannot need or get it. In that sense , His love is, as it were, bottomlessly selfless by very definition; it has everything to give, and nothing to receive.

  C. S. Lewis

  Plato, Children, Real

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• Faith in the possibility of science, generated antecedently to the development of modern scientific theory, is an unconscious derivative from medieval theology.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Development, Medieval, Modern

  Alfred North Whitehead (1997). “Science and the Modern World”, p.13, Simon and Schuster

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• I have ... spoken to the heads of various Wall Street equity derivatives trading desks and every single one of the senior managers I spoke with told me that Bernie Madoff was a fraud. Of course no one wants to take an undue career risk by sticking their head up ... The fewer people who know who wrote this report the better. I am worried about the personal safety of myself and my family.

  Harry Markopolos

  Senior, Wall, Careers

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• Since I was not able wholly to subscribe to any one set of beliefs advanced by any 'guru' I had to fall back on my own, however derivative.

  Anthony Storr

  Fall, Able, Belief

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• Guilty as charged. Perl is happily ugly, and happily derivative.

  Larry Wall

  Ugly, Computer, Guilty

  Usenet article, 1992.

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• In an ideal world, one populated by vegetarians and Esperanto speakers, derivatives would be used for one thing only: reducing levels of risk. The list of individual traders who have lost more than a billion dollars at a time betting on derivatives is not short.

  John Lanchester

  Business, Risk, Lists

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• It seems superfluous to constrain trading in some of the newer derivatives and other innovative financial contracts of the past decade. The worst have failed; investors no longer fund them and are not likely to in the future.

  Alan Greenspan

  Business, Past, Financial

  "Taking Hard New Look at a Greenspan Legacy" by Peter S. Goodman, www.nytimes.com. October 8, 2008.

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• No writer or speaker who ignores the roots of Latin derivatives is secure from egregious error.

  Stuart Sherman

  Latin, Errors, Roots

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• The power of Kings and Magistrates is nothing else, but what is only derivative, transferrd and committed to them in trust from the People, to the Common good of them all, in whom the power yet remaines fundamentally, and cannot be takn from them, without a violation of thir natural birthright.

  John Milton

  Kings, People, Common

  John Milton (1848). “The Prose Works of John Milton: The tenure of kings and magistrates ; Areopagitica ; Tracts on the Commonwealth ; Observations on Ormond's peace ; Letters of States, etc. ; Brief notes on Dr. Griffith's sermon ; Of Reformation in England ; Of prelatical episcopacy ; /The reason of Church government urged against prelacy of true religion, heresy, schism, toleration ; Of civil power in ecclesiastical causes”, p.11

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• I am a Prince," he replied, being rather dense. "It is the function of a Prince—value A—to kill monsters—value B—for the purpose of establishing order—value C—and maintaining a steady supply of maidens—value D. If one inserts the derivative of value A (Prince) into the equation y equals BC plus CD squared, and sets it equal to zero, giving the apex of the parabola, namely, the point of intersection between A (Prince) and B (Monster), one determines value E—a stable kingdom. It is all very complicated, and if you have a chart handy I can graph it for you.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Zero, Order, Cds

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• Only at his maximum does an individual surpass all his derivative elements, and become purely himself. And most people never get there. In his own pure individuality a man surpasses his father and mother, and is utterly unknown to them.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Mother, Father, Men

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.5159, Delphi Classics

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• That's what I think is smart about 'Durham County.' It's not derivative of anything American. It's more in the vein of the BBC miniseries I grew up with.

  Michelle Forbes

  Smart, Thinking, Veins

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• I don't think information overload is a function of the volume of information. It's a derivative of the volume of information plus the sense-making tools you have.

  Paul Saffo

  Thinking, Tools, Information

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• That Hegel's theory is derivative from Fichte's does not prevent it from being strikingly original and of independent value.

  Allen W. Wood

  Independent, Doe, Hegel

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• At some point, sitting in the school library, during reading period, I looked up from my leopard print hardcover composition notebook where I was scribbling a derivative [John Ronald Reuel ] Tolkien epic full of purple prose in tiny handwriting and thought to myself, "Damn! I am a writer! How did that happen?".

  Vera Nazarian

  Notebook, Reading, School

  Source: fantasyworlds.wordpress.com

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• This guy [Steve Lerner] is pure, 100% anti-capitalist and what he wants is what Cloward-Piven has basically said: Just overwhelm the system. It's sort of a derivative of Cloward-Piven.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Guy, Want, Said

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• I didn't have an imaginary friend, and even if I did I'm sure it would have been derivative of something I saw on television. Optimus Prime maybe?

  Dan Santat

  Television, Saws, Prime

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• In the beginning I had a lot of self-imposed limitations as far as production and instrumentation. It was really inspiring for us at the time, because those limitations allowed us to push ourselves as songwriters and gave us a strong sound that people could recognize as ours, like wearing a leather jacket every day. A uniform. They know it's you - and that's great - but my original intention wasn't to be a shoegaze band or to be derivative of one sound.

  Tamaryn

  Strong, Self, Leather Jackets

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Inappropriate macro economic policies in some economies, characterised by [a] low savings rate and high consumption [and] failure of financial supervision and regulation to keep up with innovation which allowed financial derivatives to spread.

  Wen Jiabao

  Innovation, Saving, Regulation

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• The best way to look at any business is from the standpoint of the clients. So there are these certain basic things that aren't going to change. Companies are going to have needs for equity, debt, advice, FX, and derivatives. Individuals are going to have needs for auto loans, mortgages, something that looks like a deposit account, and the ability to send money to people. Those things aren't going to change.

  Jamie Dimon

  People, Advice, Clients

  "Jamie Dimon on Finance: 'Who Owns the Future?'". Interview with John Micklethwait, www.bloomberg.com. March 1, 2016.

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• Writing the songs at the cabin, I couldn't help but be drawn to the boom-chicka rhythms as much as I tried to fight it. But when I fought it, the creative process was interrupted, so I ended up going with it. If I'm ever accused of being derivative of my heroes then I would take that as a compliment. I like staying close to the roots of my influences.

  Dale Watson

  Song, Hero, Writing

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