Edwin Lefevre Quotes
I noticed that in advances as well as declines, stock prices were apt to show certain habits, so to speak. There was no end of parallel cases and these made precedents to guide me.
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When you start to think about politicians, you've got to realize these are strange creatures. Other than the fact that they can't tell directions, and they have very strange breeding habits, how do you actually work with these things?
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Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.
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Most people don't have that willingness to break bad habits. They have a lot of excuses and they talk like victims.
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Events alone rarely provide much guide to the future.
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In the Arab world, there is no link between the cultural habits of peoples and the ways of thinking and creating of modern intellectuals. They are two separate worlds.
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The idea is this: It's important to upset one's work habits, to topple the cart for each project.
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Oracle has grown and advanced because we've been consistently willing to cannibalize ourselves.
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.... In a word, acts of any kind produce habits or characters of the same kind. Hence we ought to make sure that our acts are of a certain kind; for the resulting character varies as they vary. It makes no small difference, therefore, whether a man be trained in his youth up in this way or that, but a great difference, or rather all the difference.
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I never drove a car in my life. Given my drinking habits in those days, I would have been dead a long time ago - stumbling out of a bar at 4 a.m. and getting into a car.
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We have to know that life cannot be changed by us. It will be changed. But not by us. We can only guide the things that can cause physical change.
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There are other kinds of emotional pain that emerge from our own mistaken thinking. As we surrender that pain, we are inviting into our thought system a guide who will lead us to different thoughts. It's like the song "Amazing Grace": I was blind and now I see.
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In the rest of Nirvana all sorrows surcease: Only Buddha can guide to that city of Peace Whose inhabitants have the eternal release.
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Good habits formed at youth make all the difference.
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Dere is one cave,” remarked the guide, “not far off to here. P’raps we be safe if we git into ’im. But I ’fraid it not do, cause him be peepiled by fiends an’ dead man’s spirits.
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That Logic has advanced in this sure course, even from the earliest times, is apparent from the fact that, since Aristotle, it has been unable to advance a step, and thus to all appearance has reached its completion.
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Success is determined by your daily choices and habits.
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Reason must be our last judge and guide in everything.
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The difference, so observable in men's understandings and parts, does not arise so much from their natural faculties, as acquired habits.
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Our affections, however laudable, in this transitory world, should never master us; we should guide them, guide them.
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We all have an inner teacher, an inner guide, an inner voice that speaks very clearly but usually not very loudly. That information can be drowned out by the chatter of the mind and the pressure of day-to-day events. But if we quiet down the mind, we can begin to hear what we're not paying attention to. We can find out what's right for us.
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All the calculators do is project an interest rate and a tax rate for retirement. You can't rely on that. It's a guide, maybe.
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My father came back one day and forced my mother to submit to him. He raped her, holding a knife.
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As is the business of tailors to make clothes and cobblers to make shoes, so it is the business of Christians to pray.
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I noticed that in advances as well as declines, stock prices were apt to show certain habits, so to speak. There was no end of parallel cases and these made precedents to guide me.
