Geoffrey Elton Quotes
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The challenge will be to bring more uranium production online to assure market balance.
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It keeps agitating and worrying us there, ... They're trying to get it to calm down.
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And then alas! I let the matter reset, watching and waiting only, as we have too often done.
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God's will is a mysterious thing sometimes. But I don't have to understand. It's enough for me to know that whether He reveals why He's done something or not, He is all-knowing.
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Saddam Hussein didn't kill 3,100 people on Sept. 11. Osama bin Laden did, and as far as we know he's still alive.
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If I were to give one piece of advice, I would say to never accept anything that you hear or see at face value. As a general rule of thumb, then the more you question, the better.
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Change comes more from managing the journey than from announcing the destination
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'Footprints On The Moon' plans to inspire and incite positive and catalytic change.
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Cowards never lasted long enough to become real cowboys.
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The secret to enlightenment is to lighten up. Whether you are talking rock or women, all there.
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We might be too proud to admit it as guys, but we still need to learn how to manage responsibility, how to face our challenges.
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Unless you have a sense of values that's shared by people and turns them loose to do certain things on their own within those sets of values, the organization, whether a nation or corporation or citizen group, just doesn't work very well.
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The quality of a marriage is proven by its ability to tolerate an occasional "exception.
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I don't pretend to understand the Universe - it's a great deal bigger than I am.
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Men of great talents, whether poets or historians, seldom escape the attacks of those who, without ever favoring the world with any production of their own, take delight in criticising the works of others.
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People would be a lot more skeptical if they understood that there is an incredible amount of chance in the results that you observe for active managers. So the distribution of outcomes is enormously wide - but that's exactly what you'd expect by chance with lots of active managers who hold imperfectly diversified portfolios. The really good portfolios contain a lot of really lucky picks, and the really bad portfolios contain a lot of really unlucky picks as well as some really bad ones.
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If historians are not skeptical, they are nothing.
