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If your company is taken over for stock, I would sell unless I had a great reason. I'd ignore what the chief executive officer had to say.


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C.S. LEWIS Sentence first, verdict afterwards.
LEWIS CARROLL I am fond of children--except boys.
LEWIS CARROLL Stand upright, speak thy thoughts, declare
the truth thou hast, that all may share;
Be bo...
LEWIS MORRIS The great secret of doctors, known only to their wives, but still hidden from the public, is that ...
LEWIS THOMAS The earth is the Lord's fullness thereof: this is no longer a hollow dictum of religion, but a direc...
LEWIS MUMFORD They're the only friends that I've had consistently throughout high school. We've put in so many hou...
ALEX LEWIS We know they have a lot of long, athletic guys that like to take it up and down the floor a lot. The...
ALEX LEWIS Everyone sort of got stagnant. We weren't making the best passes that we could. I don't know if it w...
ALEX LEWIS We took a game-by-game focus. If we took it like that, we figured we'd have as much success as we've...
ALEX LEWIS They have to keep working and we have to take their lunches over to the pits.
ALEX LEWIS Their food has to be nutritious, high in protect and high in volume. It has to include a choice of f...
ALEX LEWIS What draws people to be friends is that they see the same truth. They share it.
C.S. LEWIS The homemaker has the ultimate career. All other careers exist for one purpose only - and that is to...
C.S. LEWIS You can make anything by writing.
C.S. LEWIS I have learned now that while those who speak about one's miseries usually hurt, those who keep sile...
C.S. LEWIS It is a good rule after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have re...
C.S. LEWIS Atheism turns out to be too simple. If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found...
C.S. LEWIS God can't give us peace and happiness apart from Himself because there is no such thing.
C.S. LEWIS Crying is all right in its way while it lasts. But you have to stop sooner or later, and then you st...
C.S. LEWIS Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person's ultimate good as far as i...
C.S. LEWIS There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind.
C.S. LEWIS No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally – and often far more – wo...
C.S. LEWIS Imagine yourself as a living house. God comes in to rebuild that house. At first, perhaps, you can u...
C.S. LEWIS I can't imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once.
C.S. LEWIS Eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably.
C.S. LEWIS