Quotes for All
At first, I felt bad judging an entire state by one county political official, but then I found out Morrison had also helped screen public school textbooks, a topic which is another chapter in my book. The Alamo is managed by the Daughters of the Republic of Texas, a group whose members can claim a … Read more
Family faces are magic mirrors. Looking at people who belong to us, we see the past, present and future. Gail Buckley
Friends are relatives you make for yourself. Eustache Deschamps
The distribution of the market is fat-tailed relative to the normal distribution… For passive investors, none of this matters, beyond being aware that outlier returns are more common than would be expected if return distributions were normal. Eugene Fama
A belief is only a thought that you keep thinking. So as you keep thinking this thought, you keep vibrationally attracting relative to that thought. So you confirm your own beliefs again and again and again and again and again. That’s why someone who believes in cancer can confirm that belief, or someone who believes … Read more
History within itself cannot be transcended. … In history itself there are only relative victories. Ernst Troeltsch
The history of man so far is nothing to brag about, from the standpoint of our ideas – and what I mean is, that in comparison with most other societies, our present-day American society has achieved things which are remarkable: material wealth, greater than for any other nation; a relative freedom from oppression; a relative … Read more
This planet might be able to support perhaps as many as half a billion people who could live a sustainable life in relative comfort. Human populations must be greatly diminished, and as quickly as possible to limit further environmental damage. Eric Pianka
For us in England, the relative value of the pound against the dollar, that has a huge impact on how easy it is to get our films made in the U.K. Eric Fellner
A person is not merely a single subject distinguished from all the others. It is especially a being to which is attributed a relative autonomy in relation to the environment with which it is most immediately in contact. Emile Durkheim