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Index funds do not trade from security to security and, thus, they tend to avoid capital gains taxes.

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• If I ask you to write down the last 4 digits of your social security number, and then take you out to lunch and ask you how many dentists there are in Manhattan, there's going to be a high correlation between those two numbers. What happens is that the number psychologically makes you feel confident.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • High
  • Security
  • Numbers

• Instead of personal security, citizens are afraid to walk down the street in Jerusalem.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Security
  • Down
  • Walk

• The lens of contract focuses predominantly on gains from trade whereas orthodoxy is focused on resource allocation.

  

  Oliver E. Williamson
  • Trade
  • Contract
  • Lens

• We believe the use of force against Iraq, especially with reference to previous resolutions of the UN Security Council, has no grounds, including legal grounds.

  

  Igor Ivanov
  • Believe
  • Security
  • Legal

• A waning United States would likely be more nationalistic, more defensive about its national identity, more paranoid about its homeland security, and less willing to sacrifice resources for the sake of others' development.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Identity
  • Sacrifice
  • Security

• What I heard was that Bush is now positioned to have victory after victory. He'll have Social Security reform passed, that he'll have tax reform passed, that he'll have conservative judges on the courts.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • Victory
  • Security
  • Tax

• Although China and United States are competitors, China and the United States are indeed partners in trade.

  

  Zhu Rongji
  • United States
  • Trade
  • China

• Motivated more by partisan politics than by national security, today's Democratic leaders see America as an occupier, not a liberator. And nothing makes this Marine madder than someone calling American troops occupiers rather than liberators.

  

  Zell Miller
  • American
  • America
  • Today

• The administration is manufacturing a crisis that does not exist in order to dismantle Social Security.

  

  Jack Reed
  • Security
  • Manufacturing

• Nobody should be too boastful or too proud about their security because there are people who have a major interest in cracking the security of networks, the security of companies.

  

  Randall L. Stephenson
  • People
  • Proud
  • Security

• I have some security that could protect me against provocations but of course there are more terrible actions that could not be stopped by any security.

  Garry Kasparov
  • Me
  • Security
  • Terrible

• One out of three jobs in Washington is tied to trade.

  

  Larry Williams
  • Three
  • Trade
  • Washington

• A more effective international disease surveillance system is essential for global security both against a bioterrorist attack or a naturally occurring disease.

  

  Daniel Akaka
  • Security
  • More
  • Surveillance

• I am the commander in chief of the United States armed forces, and Iraq is gonna have to ultimately provide for its own security.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Security
  • United States
  • Iraq

• The newness effect of a new thing wears off in nine months to a year, but financial security can last a lifetime.

  

  Dan Buettner
  • Financial
  • New
  • Security

• Security... it's simply the recognition that changes will take place and the knowledge that you're willing to deal with whatever happens.

  

  Harry Browne
  • Knowledge
  • Security
  • Changes

• Trade isn't about goods. Trade is about information. Goods sit in the warehouse until information moves them.

  

  C. J. Cherryh
  • Information
  • Trade
  • Sit

• I am a common man. Why do I need security?

  

  Kariya Munda
  • Man
  • Security

• A family may be ruined by extravagance, but it is not always through ruin that the representatives in a family are to be found in humble or comparatively humble circumstances, but that the junior members of a gentle family went into trade.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • Family
  • May
  • Humble

• Walls and barriers alone are insufficient to insure security.

  

  Alan Bersin
  • Wall
  • Security
  • Barriers

• We are so vain as to set the highest value upon those things to which nature has assigned the lowest place. What can be more coarse and rude in the mind than the precious metals, or more slavish and dirty than the people that dig and work them? And yet they defile our minds more than our bodies, and make the possessor fouler than the artificer of them. Rich men, in fine, are only the greater slaves.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • People
  • Men
  • Mind

• I feel that the social revolution of the sixties is like a revolving door that came our way, and then left. It's back again.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Way
  • Door
  • Revolution

• My success wasn't so much due to intelligence, but the fact that I stuck with problems longer.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Success
  • Problems
  • Intelligence

• Index funds do not trade from security to security and, thus, they tend to avoid capital gains taxes.

  

  Burton Malkiel
  • Security
  • Trade
  • Index funds