Source: The Inefficient Stock Market - What Pays Off And Why (1999), Chapter 15, The Wrong 20-yard Line, p. 148
“In real-world Finance, they don't pay for elegance. They pay for power - predictive power.”
Robert Haugen (1942–2013) American economist
Source: The Inefficient Stock Market - What Pays Off And Why (1999), Chapter 13, Counterattack - The Second Wave, p. 129
Wilhelm II, German Emperor (1859–1941) German Emperor and King of Prussia
Remarks made at the meeting of the German warlords at Advanced General Headquarters at Avesnes (11 August 1918), quoted in John Terraine, To Win A War: 1918 The Year of Victory (London: Cassell, 2003), p. 121
1910s
“It's a kind of arrogance to be so certain you're past redemption.”
Ellis Peters book A Morbid Taste for Bones
Source: A Morbid Taste for Bones
“Christianity, if it is to triumph over pantheism, must absorb it.”
Henri-Frédéric Amiel (1821–1881) Swiss philosopher and poet
1 October 1849
Journal Intime (1882), Journal entries
Context: Christianity, if it is to triumph over pantheism, must absorb it. To our pusillanimous eyes Jesus would have borne the marks of a hateful pantheism, for he confirmed the Biblical phrase "ye are gods," and so would St. Paul, who tells us that we are of "the race of God." Our century wants a new theology — that is to say, a more profound explanation of the nature of Christ and of the light which it flashes upon heaven and upon humanity.
“Once again the powers of light and good have triumphed over the media!”
Karl Rove (1950) American political consultant and policy advisor
Journeys with George documentary on unspecified date during 2000 Bush Campaign
Jonas Salk (1914–1995) Inventor of polio vaccine
Academy of Achievement interview (1991)
Context: I judge things from an evolutionary perspective — "How does this serve and contribute to the process of our own evolution?" — rather than think of good and evil in moral terms. I see the triumph of good over evil as a manifestation of the error-correcting process of evolution.
“Dark Helmet : So, Lone Star, now you see that evil will always triumph because good is dumb.”
Mel Brooks (1926) American director, writer, actor, and producer
Spaceballs
“Philosophy triumphs easily over past and future evils; but present evils triumph over it.”
François de La Rochefoucauld book Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims
La philosophie triomphe aisément des maux passés et des maux à venir. Mais les maux présents triomphent d'elle.
Maxim 22. Compare: "This same philosophy is a good horse in the stable, but an arrant jade on a journey", Oliver Goldsmith, The Good-Natured Man, Act i.
Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims (1665–1678)
