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• For all long-term investors, there is only one objective-maximum total real return after taxes.

  John Templeton

  Real, Long, Taxes

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• To place a man in a multi-stage rocket and project him into the controlling gravitational field of the moon where the passengers can make scientific observations, perhaps land alive, and then return to earth - all that constitutes a wild dream worthy of Jules Verne. I am bold enough to say that such a man-made voyage will never occur regardless of all future advances.

  Lee De Forest

  Dream, Future, Men

  "De Forest Says Space Travel Is Impossible". "Lewiston Morning Tribune" Newspaper, February 25, 1957.

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• The people always know that some of the grain will be good, some of the crop will be saved, some will return and bear the strength of the kernel, that from the bloodiest year some survive to outfox the frost.

  Meridel Le Sueur

  Years, People, Frost

  Neala Schleuning, Meridel Le Sueur (1983). “America, song we sang without knowing: the life and ideas of Meridel LeSueur”, Don Olson Distribution

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• To reduce risk it is necessary to avoid a portfolio whose securities are all highly correlated with each other. One hundred securities whose returns rise and fall in near unison afford little protection than the uncertain return of a single security.

  Harry Markowitz

  Fall, Risk, Portfolios

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• Some will tell you that you are mad, and nearly all will say, 'What is the use?' For we are a nation of shopkeepers, and no shopkeeper will look at research which will not promise him a financial return within a year. And so you will sledge nearly alone, but those with whom you sledge will not be shopkeepers: that is worth a good deal. If you march your Winter Journeys you will have your reward, so long as all you want is a penguin's egg.

  Apsley Cherry-Garrard

  Winter, Journey, Years

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• It’s not enough to withdraw from society and seek your own salvation, your own individuation. The individuator must return to society (“collectivity”) to contribute his or her new insights, his or her new values, which must be at least equal to if not greater than the norm.

  Gary Valentine Lachman

  Enough, Salvation, Insight

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• If you simply walk on the beach as we are doing, you have no special color. But if you travel with a purpose, it is different. When you go somewhere important or you return home from a long journey, you build a shape around you and it reaches out ahead to touch your destination.

  Lyall Watson

  Beach, Home, Journey

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• There is no easy formula for determining right and wrong livelihood, but it is essential to keep the question alive. To return the sense of dignity and honor to manhood, we have to stop pretending that we can make a living at something that is trivial or destructive and still have sense of legitimate self-worth. A society in which vocation and job are separated for most people gradually creates an economy that is often devoid of spirit, one that frequently fills our pocketbooks at the cost of emptying our souls.

  Sam Keen

  Jobs, Self Worth, People

  Sam Keen (2010). “Fire in the Belly: On Being a Man”, p.168, Bantam

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• When the soil's fertility is being conserved instead of raped, when village life is a social unity, when pride of craftsmanship returns, when everyone works for the sake of adding beauty and importance to life, when every river is clean and bright, and the proud words 'I serve' are in everyone's heart and purpose. Then my country will be good enough for me.

  Henry Williamson

  Country, Heart, Pride

  Henry Williamson (1966). “A solitary war”

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• Happiness always returns to port . . .

  Duong Thu Huong

  Port

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• It is more than twenty years since we left the city. This is a serious chunk of time, longer than the years we spent living there. Yet we still think of Jerusalem as our home. Not home in the sense of the place that you conduct your daily life or constantly return to. In fact, Jerusalem is our home almost against our wills. It is our home because it defines us, whether we like it or not.

  Yotam Ottolenghi

  Home, Thinking, Years

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• Sometime, It's easier to love someone with flaws you can forgive in return for them forgiving yours.

  Mark Lawrence

  Forgiving, Flaws, Easier

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• Mad, malevolent, and incantatory, The Orphan Palace reads like the hagridden fever dream of one who has not only stared the Abyss in Its black and fathomless face, but welcomed Its gaze in return . . . and become Its living embodiment. It is a journey to be taken by none but the bravest of readers, and by souls with an ardent desire to savor their own damnation.

  Robin Spriggs

  Dream, Taken, Journey

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• Clay can be a metaphor for many things. I made it a metaphor for flesh and earth, and these are two kinds of generic givens of life, if you look at it poetically, biblically, the idea of the life of beings, of man, being transitory, the earth abides-ashes to ashes, dust to dust-man returns to earth, grows out of earth like a flower, wilts, goes back to the earth... We are frail, transitory creatures with aspirations of immortality, conscious of our inevitable death, and we have to deal with it somehow.

  Stephen De Staebler

  Flower, Men, Dust

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• It was not the goal that really concerned us, the journey was the thing. Who ever reaches any goal? From what journey can we return? We know of the poverty about us, of the work and worry, but we know of a degree of freedom, of a stunted beauty. We have warm open days and sunshine in Carolina. Much is denied us. But we have, we have. And an attitude is more powerful than any circumstance.

  Ben Robertson

  Powerful, Attitude, Sunshine

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• Elasticsearch is all about scale for us. At Foursquare, we handle tens of millions of searches across 50 million locations each day. Elasticsearch returns real-time results, which encourages more usage and deeper engagement.

  Andrew Hogue

  Real, Engagement, Each Day

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• This is the planet teeming, this place we’ve come to and will leave tomorrow, deepened for the long return but not the wedded reach, the losing touch of self to self, contented more or less and known not nearly well enough.

  Christopher Cokinos

  Self, Long, Losing

  Christopher Cokinos (2013). “Bodies, of the Holocene”, p.16, Truman State University Press

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• A massive and brilliant accomplishment--the first English translation of the original Grimm brothers' fairy tales. The plain telling is that much more forceful for its simplicity and directness, particularly in scenes of naked self-concern and brutality. Hate, spite, love, magic, all self-evident, heartbreaking, delightful. I will return to this book over and over, no doubt about it.

  Donna Jo Napoli

  Brother, Hate, Book

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• To return to awareness is to notice this new world with baby-eyes, and to appreciate her strangeness.

  Sara Genn

  Baby, Eye, Appreciate

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• Socialism may be worthless as a scheme, but it is not meaningless as a symptom. Rousseau's theory of the origin of society, of the social contract, and of a cure for all the social evils by a return to a state of nature, had, as we all know now, no more relation to fact than the dreams of an illiterate drunkard; but they were not without value as a vague and symbolical expression of certain evils from which the France of his day was suffering.

  William Hurrell Mallock

  Dream, Expression, Evil

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• I like my small camper. I just do not want to return to a fixed home. I cannot stand being in one place. I must keep moving.

  Sly Stone

  Moving, Home, Want

  "Homeless and Living In a Van" by Sly Stone, www.tmz.com. September 25, 2011.

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• Home is the place that goes where you go, yet it welcomes you upon your return. Like a dog overjoyed at the door. We've missed you is what you hear, no matter how long you've been gone.

  Michael J. Rosen

  Dog, Home, Doors

  Michael J. Rosen, Various (2011). “Home: A Collaboration of Thirty Authors & Illustrators”, p.6, Harper Collins

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• Generally speaking, investing in yourself is the best thing you can do. Anything that improves your own talents; nobody can tax it or take it away from you. They can run up huge deficits and the dollar can become worth far less. You can have all kinds of things happen. But if you’ve got talent yourself, and you’ve maximized your talent, you’ve got a tremendous asset that can return ten-fold.

  Warren Buffett

  Running, Dollars, Investing

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• He would give all of his clothes to his servant, admonishing him NOT to return them until he had completed his day's work.

  Victor Hugo

  Clothes, Giving, Interesting

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• We feel the beauty of nature because we are part of nature and because we know that however much in our separate domains we abstract from the unity of Nature, this unity remains. Although we may deal with particulars, we return finally to the whole pattern woven out of these.

  Ernest Everett Just

  Beauty, Nature, Knowing

  Ernest Everett Just (1939). “The Biology of the Cell Surface”, Taylor & Francis

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