Jesse Livermore Quotes
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A person that says, 'Losing is not difficult,' I don't even want to be around that person. And obviously, that person has never won anything relevant in their life.
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Maybe the real secret to America's greatness is that we hate one another.
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SuperMemo is based on the insight that there is an ideal moment to practice what you've learned. Practice too soon and you waste your time. Practice too late and you've forgotten the material and have to relearn it. The right time to practice is just at the moment you're about to forget.
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We think of feminism as an academic subject, but it's not. If you think feminism is academic, you think there's a right or wrong.
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I was a tomboy.
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Scepticism, that dry caries of the intelligence.
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My dear, did you ever stop to think what a wonderful bunker you would make?
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If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic.
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Everyone wants to psychoanalyze me. I don't know why.
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I have a pickup truck. And I prefer to be with dogs or on my sailboat than in a car - actually, more than any other place on Earth.
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I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.
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I don't think of reflection on dark things as necessarily dark.
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So somebody told me that if I wasn't a coffee drinker yet, by the end of college I'd have to be, because a math major is so tough I would have to stay up very late. I was going to need coffee to do that. Well, merely because they said that, I never drank coffee in college, never got addicted to it, never needed it.
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I usually have more than one thing I'm working on at once - I've been working on three different novels. When I get stuck on one, I hop back and forth.
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I can be very ordinary looking.
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I create from a place of passion. It's like a pregnancy, where you create from a place of passion, and then it grows, and then before you know it, you want to push that baby out.
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I've never had to fend for a child's life, which sounds very terrifying.
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I just happen to have one of those skill sets that allows me to work in my underwear.
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Don't think about anything for too long. Even if it's off-the-wall, go for it. You'll have a lot more fun in life.
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While big business gain subsidies and political access, small businesses drown in red tape, and individuals now risk being classified as terrorists for complaining about it. Economic globalisation is about homogenising differences in the worlds' markets, cultures, tastes and traditions. It's about giving big business access to a global market.
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At the end of the day, I understand that life has road blocks, and life is like school - you'll be tested; we gotta pass it.
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Where there is no belief in the soul, there is very little drama . . . . Either one is serious about salvation or one is not. And it is well to realize that the maximum amount of seriousness admits the maximum amount of comedy. Only if we are secure in our beliefs can we see the comical side of the universe.
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Children cannot eat rhetoric and they cannot be sheltered by commissions. I don't want to see another commission that studies the needs of kids. We need to help them.
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Don't give me timing, give me time
