Mortimer Adler Quotes
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No one knows what the top-performing asset class will be next year. Lacking this prescience, your next-best solution is to own all of the classes and rebalance regularly.
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It wasn't my dream to make music. It was just something I ended up doing, and no one said stop.
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Happiness is knowing and appreciating what you've got. I am very, very, very grateful for what, to me, is dead easy.
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I simply haven't the nerve to imagine a being, a force, a cause which keeps the planets revolving in their orbits and then suddenly stops in order to give me a bicycle with three speeds.
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I get up every single day trying to repay a debt that I can never repay. Never. And I will work hard. Because I don't know why I was saved. I don't know.
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Nine times out of ten, in the arts as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered; there is only error to be exposed.
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The Internet seems to have killed American fashion in the sense that everybody has good style, but they also look vaguely the same.
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Original thought is like original sin: both happened before you were born to people you could not have possibly met.
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God made the world for us to live together in peace and not fight.
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When I meet people after stand-up shows, they'll bring their cars.
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Good style - regardless of fads - means the thing that suits your body.
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Of all the nonsense written about love, none is more absurd than the notion that ideal love is selfless. To love is to see myself in you and to wish to celebrate myself with you. What I love is the embodiment of my values in another person. Love is an act of self-assertion, self-expression and a celebration of being alive.
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Women's tennis is two sets of rubbish that lasts only half an hour.
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A lot of people believe what other people say.
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Women are both talented and innovative thinkers and tend to use computer science as a tool to solve larger problems.
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Here in L.A., there are a lot of dead spots, and you have to drive to find energy, but all of India is so energetic.
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Self-delusion is one of the funniest things there is.
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The silhouette is the most important thing in clothes. Every French girl knows that. High-waisted trousers give you long legs and a pretty bum which, after all, is what we all want.
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Every expression of truth has in it the seeds of propagation, even as the sun cannot hide its light.
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Gold is a relic from a time when government's were less trustworthy in these matters currency debasement than they are now.
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Men and women are immigrants in each other's worlds.
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In times of badness, gold is being worth more than beauty.
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Not to engage in this pursuit of ideas is to live like ants instead of like men.
