“Atlas.” I say his name sympathetically because he does look absolutely drained.
“Do you need me to come over and give you a hug?”
“You mean do I need you to come home and give me a hug?”
I smile when he says that. “Yes. That’s exactly what I meant. Do you need me to come home and give you a hug?”
He nods. “I do, Lily. Come home.”
Sayfa 301
I may have not been sure about what really did interest me, but I was absolutely sure about what didn’t.” Albert camus
Reader at Work 1Bülent Kandiller · Middle East Technical University Department (Odtü) · 2013118 okunma
"You could he fifty ex-husbands who try to make our lives hell, but as long as I have you, I will be absolutely unaffected by anyone else's negativity. That's a promise."
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I tell him that monogamy, like all artificial things, is absolutely necessary because man invents only what he needs.
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"It was a quite difficult road for you all to travel," said Mr. March, "and the last part of it was absolutely very hard, but from all that your mother has told me, I know how well you have done, and I'm proud of my little women."
“You’re a damn liar, Abigail Amelia Keller. You want big and you want sparkle and you want extravagance. Not in price, but in love and adoration. And right here, right now, I’m promising to spend the rest of my life giving you that. Say yes and I’ll make you feel loved and cherished and appreciated until my last breath. Say yes and I’ll help you paint the world pink. Say yes and we’ll forever be completely consumed by each other. We’ll be the cool aunt and uncle, and we’ll travel and explore, and you will be mine and mine alone. I am absolutely wild about you. You are my sun and my moon and I will be yours. You completely consume me.”
So how does a panic begin? What really happens? And as an investor caught in the downturn, or someone looking to cash in on the panic, what do you do?
The number one thing that you do is: Don’t panic. Panic, after all, is an irrational visceral response to a sense of powerlessness and helplessness, which often comes from a lack of understanding of the actual circumstances. But panics, odd as this may sound, are nothing to be scared of.
As Franklin Roosevelt once said during the Great Depression, “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.” Understanding the origins of the difficulty can help to diminish anxiety. And in any number of critical ways, all busts start with a boom. Why? Because all busts start with a gathering consensus that a market has gone too far, too fast.
The same people who were so in love with the market, and with every stock in it, that they’d sell their grandmothers into slavery to buy more stock, now all of a sudden won’t touch a share of stock with a 10-foot pole. Objectively, this fickle attitude makes absolutely no sense. But that’s failing to take into account the rule of emotion, which tends to stimulate snap judgments. Emotions make people see only in black and white, good and bad, up and down, so what was good suddenly becomes bad. What do you do in such conditions?
Wait for the panic and the inevitable crash in prices. Then, calmly, buy.
Why? Because you’re being paid to take a risk that the short-term sentiment is greatly exaggerated. In the perception gap between emotion and reason, you’ll find your buy window.
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MR. REDDIT: Wow. I thought Austen was one of the earliest and most influential romance novelists.
MCAT: Well her work’s been romanticized by popular culture, made into movies that emphasize the romantic aspects. And Pride and Prejudice is absolutely swoony as hell, I can’t argue with that. Her other novels have some incredibly romantic storylines and moments, too. She’s just…not necessarily a romance novelist in the full sense of the genre. Much as I adore Austen, there’s so much more to romance, and I wish more people knew that.
