Warren Buffett Quotes, Philosophy Quotes, Loss Quotes

I would rather sustain the penalties resulting from over-conservatism than face the consequences of error, perhaps with permanent capital loss, resulting from the adoption of "New Era" philosophy where trees really do grow to the sky.

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O loss of sight, of thee I most complain! Blind among enemies, O worse than chains, Dungeon, or beggary, or decrepit age!

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Empty your mind of all thoughts.

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LOSS, n. Privation of that which we had, or had not. Thus, in the latter sense, it is said of a defeated candidate that he "lost his election".

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Endow the Living - with the Tears - You squander on the Dead.

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Distress at losing an object can be as much a frustration at the intellectual mystery of the disappearance as about the loss itself.

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The gross profits in many workouts appear quite small. It's a little like looking for parking meters with some time left on them. However, the predictability coupled with a short holding period produces quite decent average annual rates of return after allowance for the occasional substantial loss.

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It's got to be the best intellectual exercise out there. You're seeing through new situations every ten minutes. In the stock market you don't base your decisions on what the market is doing, but on what you think is rational. Bridge is about weighing gain/loss ratios. You're doing calculations all the time.

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To make a discovery is not necessarily the same as to understand a discovery. Not only Planck but also other physicists were intially at a loss as to what the proper context of the new postulate really was.

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Sweet is every sound, sweeter the voice, but every sound is sweet.

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When life makes us face difficult situations-such as a personal loss-we have to understand that eternity is taking one more step.

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... I feel certain that his tale is true. Feeling that certainty, I befriend him. As long as that certainty shall last, I will befriend him. And if any consideration could shake me in this resolve, I should be so ashamed of myself for my meanness, that no man's good opinion - no, nor no woman's - so gained, could compensate me for the loss of my own.

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The true scholar grudges every opportunity of action passed, by, as a loss of power.

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They are sick that surfeit with too much, as they that starve with nothing.

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One's own self or material goods, which has more worth? Loss (of self) or possession (of goods), which is the greater evil? He who loves most, spends most, He who hoards much loses much

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Humility is not disgraceful, and carries no loss of true pride.

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Ambition, the soldier's virtue, rather makes choice of loss, than gain which darkens him.

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Sometimes gain comes from losing, and sometimes loss comes from gaining.

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The loss of young first love is so painful that it borders on the ludicrous.

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A Light exists in Spring Not present on the Year At any other period - When March is scarcely here A Color stands abroad On Solitary Fields That Science cannot overtake But Human Nature feels. It waits upon the Lawn, It shows the furthest Tree Upon the furthest Slope you know It almost speaks to you. Then as Horizons step Or Noons report away Without the Formula of sound It passes and we stay - A quality of loss Affecting our Content As Trade had suddenly encroached Upon a Sacrament.

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