Quotes with short-sighted

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  • Aaron C. Brown If you want to understand financial markets, and their effects on the economy, you have to understand the trading game. Many short-term price movements are neither random nor caused by economic fundamentals. They're caused by investors buying and selling.
    The Poker Face of Wall Street (2006) Ch. 1
    Aaron C. Brown
    American finance practitioner (1956 - )
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  • Bill Flores Imagine having all of your freedoms taken away, being forced to work against your will, and constantly living under the threat of violence - in short, being forced to live as a slave. Sadly, this situation is a reality for millions of children, women, and men each year as part of the global human trafficking industry.
    Bill Flores
    American businessman and politician (1954 - )
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  • Ben Bernanke In a slow-growing world that is short on aggregate demand, Germany's trade surplus is a problem.
    Ben Bernanke
    American economist (1953 - )
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  • Carol Loomis In general, the hedge funds were clobbered by the 1969 bear market, ending up in many cases with records that were worse than those put together by aggressive mutual funds denied the luxury of short sales.
    Carol Loomis
    American financial journalist (1929 - )
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  • Camille Paglia In high school in the early Sixties, I dreamed of intellectual work by women that would match the highest male standards and set men on their ear. A lot of women have done a lot of academic work since then, but most of them fall short of that standard.
    Sex, Art and American Culture : New Essays (1992)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Arthur Henderson In short, it may be said that on paper the obligations to settle international disputes peacefully are now so comprehensive and far-reaching that it is almost impossible for a state to resort to war without violating one or more solemn treaty obligations.
    Arthur Henderson
    British Labour politician
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  • Jean de la Fontaine In short, luck's always to blame.
    Jean de la Fontaine
    French writer (1621 - 1695)
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  • Asa Gray In short, the animal and vegetable lines, diverging widely above, join below in a loop.
    Asa Gray
    American botanist (1810 - 1888)
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  • Dan Cruickshank In short, the building becomes a theatrical demonstration of its functional ideal. In this romanticism, high-tech architecture is, of course, no different in spirit - if totally different in form - from all the romantic architecture of the past.
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  • Armstrong Williams In short, we cannot grow, we cannot achieve authentic discovery, and our eyes cannot be cleansed to the truly beautiful possibilities of life, if we simply live a neutral existence.
    Armstrong Williams
    American political commentator, entrepreneur and author (1962 - )
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  • Ben Jonson In small proportions we just beauties see; And in short measures, life may perfect be.
    Memoirs of Jonson And Every Man in His Humour: The Works of Ben Jonson
    Ben Jonson
    British Dramatist, Poet (1572 - 1637)
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  • Henry Miller In this age, which believes that there is a short cut to everything, the greatest lesson to be learned is that the most difficult way is, in the long run, the easiest.
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • Nikita Ivanovich Panin In youth the days are short and the years are long. In old age the years are short and day's long.
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  • Francis Beaumont Interest makes some people blind, and others quick-sighted.
    Francis Beaumont
    English writer and poet (1584 - 1616)
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  • Arthur Machen Introductions, that is, belong to the masterpieces and classics of the world, to the great and ancient and accepted things; and I am here introducing a short, small story of my own which appeared in The Evening News about ten months ago.
    Arthur Machen
    Welsh author and mystic (1863 - 1947)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves?
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Vladimir Nabokov It is a short walk from the hallelujah to the hoot.
    Vladimir Nabokov
    American writer and poet (1899 - 1977)
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  • Samuel Johnson It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Camilla Belle It was a huge shock. I've never had hair that short in my life! I think the rest of the cast and crew were mourning my haircut more than I was! But after a while, I felt liberated, I learned to embrace it.
    Camilla Belle
    Brazilian-American actress, director and producer (1986 - )
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  • Ernest Hemingway It wasn't by accident that the Gettysburg address was so short. The laws of prose writing are as immutable as those of flight, of mathematics, of physics.
    Ernest Hemingway
    American writer (1899 - 1961)
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