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11. “Our first meeting was at an obscure library in the Rue Montmartre, where the accident of our both being in search of the same very rare and very remarkable volume brought us into closer communion.”
Edgar Allan Poe
Connection, Chance, Literature, Philosophical Reflection, Interpersonal Relationships, Poetic Imagery
21. “His first two clients were the last two persons hanged in the Maycomb County jail. Atticus had urged them to accept the state’s generosity in allowing them to plead Guilty to second-degree murder and escape with their lives, but they were Haverfords, in Maycomb County a name synonymous with jackass.” Harper Lee Legal Advocacy, Local Infamy, Second Chances, Advocacy, Infamy, Chance
23. “The straight warp of necessity, not to be swerved from its ultimate course – its every alternating vibration, indeed, only tending to that; free will still free to ply her shuttle between given threads; and chance, though restrained in its play within the right lines of necessity, and sideways in its motions directed by free will, though thus prescribed to by both, chance by turns rules either, and has the last featuring blow at events.” Herman Melville Necessity Warp, Free Will, Chance Impact, Necessity, Will, Chance
26. “If we assume that a very considerable amount of Wall Street activity must inevitably have elements of chance in it, then the sound idea would be to measure these chances as accurately as you can, and play the game in the direction of having the odds on your side.” Benjamin Graham Wall Street, Risk Odds, Financial Strategy, Market, Chance, Analysis
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11. “Our first meeting was at an obscure library in the Rue Montmartre, where the accident of our both being in search of the same very rare and very remarkable volume brought us into closer communion.”
Edgar Allan Poe Connection, Chance, Literature, Philosophical Reflection, Interpersonal Relationships, Poetic Imagery
21. “His first two clients were the last two persons hanged in the Maycomb County jail. Atticus had urged them to accept the state’s generosity in allowing them to plead Guilty to second-degree murder and escape with their lives, but they were Haverfords, in Maycomb County a name synonymous with jackass.”
Harper Lee Legal Advocacy, Local Infamy, Second Chances, Advocacy, Infamy, Chance
23. “The straight warp of necessity, not to be swerved from its ultimate course – its every alternating vibration, indeed, only tending to that; free will still free to ply her shuttle between given threads; and chance, though restrained in its play within the right lines of necessity, and sideways in its motions directed by free will, though thus prescribed to by both, chance by turns rules either, and has the last featuring blow at events.”
Herman Melville Necessity Warp, Free Will, Chance Impact, Necessity, Will, Chance
26. “If we assume that a very considerable amount of Wall Street activity must inevitably have elements of chance in it, then the sound idea would be to measure these chances as accurately as you can, and play the game in the direction of having the odds on your side.”
Benjamin Graham Wall Street, Risk Odds, Financial Strategy, Market, Chance, Analysis
