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Often and often afterwards, the beloved Aunt would ask me why I had never told anyone how I was being treated. Children tell little more than animals, for what comes to them they accept as eternally established.
Rudyard Kipling
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CONGENIAL (kun-JEE-nee-ul)
Sympathetic, agreeable, having the same taste, nature, or temperament.
Synonyms: compatible, kindred, harmonious.
Antonyms: alien, dissident, incongruous (in-KAHNG-groo-us).
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January 2nd, 2012
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Man is the most intelligent of the animals – and the most silly.
Diogenes
VERBAL
ADEPT (uh-DEPT)
Skilled, handy.
Synonyms: clever, able, deft, expert, dexterous, proficient, adroit
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January 2nd, 2012
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It’s never just a game when you’re winning.
George Carlin
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MOROSE (muh-ROHS)
Gloomy, moody, glum, grumpy, ill-tempered, depressed.
Synonyms: sullen, dolorous, lugubrious, saturnine.
Antonyms: optimistic, jovial, sanguine.
Corresponding noun: moroseness.
Additional useful word: misanthropy, hatred of humankind.
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January 2nd, 2012
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Animals are such agreeable friends – they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.
George Eliot
In economics and finance, arbitrage ( /ˈɑrbɨtrɑːʒ/) is the practice of taking advantage of a price difference between two or more markets: striking a combination of matching deals that capitalize upon the imbalance, the profit being the difference between the market prices.
CANDOR (KAN-dur)
Frankness, openness, sincere expression.
Synonyms: straightforwardness, outspokenness, forthrightness, ingenuousness (in-JENyoous- nis).
Corresponding adjective: candid, frank, open, sincere. Synonyms of candid include forthright and ingenuous.
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January 1st, 2012
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October. This is one of the peculiarly dangerous months to speculate in stocks. The others are July, January, September, April, November, May, March, June, December, August, and February.
Mark Twain
The January effect is a calendar-related anomaly in the financial market where financial security prices increase in the month of January. This creates an opportunity for investors to buy stock for lower prices before January and sell them after their value increases.
OSTENSIBLE (ah-STEN-suh-buul)
Apparent, appearing or seeming to be true, professed or declared as true without being demonstrated or proved.
Synonyms: plausible, specious.
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January 1st, 2012
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Man is the only animal that blushes… or needs to.
Mark Twain
In the 1970s Eugene Fama defined an efficient financial market as “one in which prices always fully reflect available information”. The most common type of efficiency referred to in financial markets is the allocative efficiency, or the efficiency of allocating resources.
DIGRESS (di-GRES or dy-GRES)
To wander, stray from the point, ramble, deviate, go off in another direction.
Corresponding noun: digression.
Related words: ingress, the place you walk in, the entrance; egress, the place you walk out, the exit.
Additional useful word: archaic (ar-KAY-ik), old-fashioned.
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January 1st, 2012
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The Nets could go 0 for 82 and I’d look at you like this shit gravy.
- Jay-Z
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December 31st, 2011
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The propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals.
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December 31st, 2011
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Man is an exception, whatever else he is. If he is not the image of God, then he is a disease of the dust. If it is not true that a divine being fell, then we can only say that one of the animals went entirely off its head.
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December 31st, 2011
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Men feel that cruelty to the poor is a kind of cruelty to animals. They never feel that it is an injustice to equals; nay it is treachery to comrades.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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December 31st, 2011
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The theoretical understanding of the world, which is the aim of philosophy, is not a matter of great practical importance to animals, or to savages, or even to most civilised men.
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December 30th, 2011
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Studying cows, pigs and chickens can help an actor develop his character. There are a lot of things I learned from animals. One was that they couldn't hiss or boo me.
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December 30th, 2011
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A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him, that of plants and animals as that of his fellow men, and when he devotes himself helpfully to all life that is in need of help.
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December 30th, 2011
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Animals often strike us as passionate machines.
Eric Hoffer
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December 29th, 2011
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Your vision is very important. You should know whom you’re selling to, what your marketing and advertising says about you, and whom it’s speaking to. Me personally, I don’t try to please everyone. I understand who I am selling to and I work towards that vision all the time.
Ralph Lauren
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December 29th, 2011
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Animals, whom we have made our slaves, we do not like to consider our equal.
Charles Darwin
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December 29th, 2011
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He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.
Immanuel Kant
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December 28th, 2011
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I am not a vegetarian because I love animals; I am a vegetarian because I hate plants.
A. Whitney Brown
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December 28th, 2011
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Humans are the only animals that have children on purpose with the exception of guppies, who like to eat theirs.
P. J. O'Rourke
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December 28th, 2011
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Don’t let apprehension or anxiety stop you from taking action. Some things might not work out in life, but if you keep taking action, past failures often end up contributing to future successes.
Craig Ballantyne
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December 27th, 2011
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Overnight success is something that I’ll never promise anyone. However, action taken every day is a habit that I’ll guarantee will bring you success in
time.
Craig Ballantyne
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December 27th, 2011
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If you're not confused, you're not paying attention.
Tom Peters
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December 27th, 2011
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Everybody does have a book in them, but in most cases that’s where it should stay.
Christopher Hitchens
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December 26th, 2011
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Owners of dogs will have noticed that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they will think you are god. Whereas owners of cats are compelled to realize that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they draw the conclusion that they are gods.
Christopher Hitchens
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December 26th, 2011
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About George W. Bush: He is lucky to be governor of Texas. He is unusually incurious, abnormally unintelligent, amazingly inarticulate, fantastically uncultured, extraordinarily uneducated, and apparently quite proud of all these things.
Christopher Hitchens
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December 26th, 2011
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The four most overrated things in life are champagne, lobster, anal sex and picnics.
Christopher Hitchens
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December 26th, 2011
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About Michael Moore: Europeans think Americans are fat, vulgar, greedy, stupid, ambitious and ignorant and so on. And they’ve taken as their own, as their representative American, someone who actually embodies all of those qualities.
Christopher Hitchens
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December 26th, 2011
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The governor of Texas, who, when asked if the Bible should also be taught in Spanish, replied that ‘if English was good enough for Jesus, then it’s good enough for me.
Christopher Hitchens
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December 25th, 2011
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About Mother Teresa: She was not a friend of the poor. She was a friend of poverty. She said that suffering was a gift from God. She spent her life opposing the only known cure for poverty, which is the empowerment of women and the emancipation of them from a livestock version of compulsory reproduction.
Christopher Hitchens
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December 25th, 2011
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If you gave [Jerry] Falwell an enema he could be buried in a matchbox.
Christopher Hitchens
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December 25th, 2011
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About Sarah Palin: She’s got no charisma of any kind, [but] I can imagine her being mildly useful to a low-rank porn director.
Christopher Hitchens
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December 25th, 2011
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Cheap booze is a false economy.
Christopher Hitchens
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December 25th, 2011
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If you gave [Jerry] Falwell an enema he could be buried in a matchbox.
Christopher Hitchens
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December 24th, 2011
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About Sarah Palin: She’s got no charisma of any kind, [but] I can imagine her being mildly useful to a low-rank porn director.
Christopher Hitchens
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December 24th, 2011
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Cheap booze is a false economy.
Christopher Hitchens
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December 24th, 2011
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A good liar must have a good memory. Kissinger is a stupendous liar with a remarkable memory.
Christopher Hitchens
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December 24th, 2011
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Hatred, though it provides often rather junky energy, is a terrific way of getting you out of bed in the morning and keeping you going. If you don’t let it get out of hand, it can be canalized into writing.
Christopher Hitchens
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December 24th, 2011
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“It [Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize] would be like giving someone an Oscar in the hope that it would encourage them to make a decent motion picture.”
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December 24th, 2011
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Humans are the only animals that have children on purpose with the exception of guppies, who like to eat theirs.
P. J. O'Rourke
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December 18th, 2011
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I am not a vegetarian because I love animals; I am a vegetarian because I hate plants.
A. Whitney Brown
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December 17th, 2011
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We are not animals. We are not a product of what has happened to us in our past. We have the power of choice.
Stephen Covey
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December 11th, 2011
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A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite.
Leo Tolstoy
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December 11th, 2011
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All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.
George Orwell
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December 10th, 2011
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Anyone who hates children and animals can't be all bad.
W. C. Fields
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December 10th, 2011
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At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.
Aristotle
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December 10th, 2011
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Animation is different from other parts. Its language is the language of caricature. Our most difficult job was to develop the cartoon's unnatural but seemingly natural anatomy for humans and animals.
Walt Disney
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December 9th, 2011
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Humans are amphibians – half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time.
C. S. Lewis
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December 9th, 2011
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Labels are mentally lazy ways by which people assert they know you without knowing you.
Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson
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December 9th, 2011
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No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.
Robert Frost
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December 8th, 2011
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Humans are amphibians – half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time.
C. S. Lewis
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