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It appears that options traders are bracing for volatility in Heinz and the increase in call volume suggests that many are positioning for a move higher. This might be due to the acquisition talks, but also an earnings report due out before the opening bell on February 28.


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HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL How desperately difficult it is to be honest with oneself. It is much easier to be honest with other...
EDWARD FREDERIC BENSON Every life is a profession of faith, and exercises an inevitable and silent influence.
HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL Mutual respect implies discretion and reserve even in love itself; it means preserving as much liber...
HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL The best path through life is the highway.
HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL Destiny has two ways of crushing us -- by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them.
HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL It is by teaching that we teach ourselves, by relating that we observe, by affirming that we examine...
HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL Charm is the quality in others that makes us more satisfied with ourselves.
HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL It is not what he had, or even what he does which expresses the worth of a man, but what he is.
HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being.
HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL We are never more discontented with others than when we are discontented with ourselves.
HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the ...
HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL To live we must conquer incessantly, we must have the courage to be happy.
HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL Our systems, perhaps, are nothing more than an unconscious apology for our faults --a gigantic scaff...
HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL Analysis kills spontaneity. The grain once ground into flour springs and germinates no more.
HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL America is an adorable woman chewing tobacco.
FREDERIC AUGUSTE BARTHOLDI We become actors without realizing it, and actors without wanting to.
HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL Accept life, and you must accept regret.
HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL Tears are the symbol of the inability of the soul to restrain its emotion and retain its self comman...
HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL Materialism coarsens and petrifies everything, making everything vulgar, and every truth false.
HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL Pure truth cannot be assimilated by the crowd; it must be communicated by contagion.
HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL Common sense is the measure of the possible; it is composed of experience and prevision; it is calcu...
HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL It takes two for a kiss Only one for a sigh, Twain by twain we marry One by one we die.
FREDERIC LAWRENCE KNOWLES Joy is a partnership, Grief weeps alone, Many guests had Cana; Gethsemane but one.
FREDERIC LAWRENCE KNOWLES Cleverness is serviceable for everything, sufficient for nothing
HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL To win true peace, a man needs to feel himself directed, pardoned, and sustained by a supreme power,...
HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings.
HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL An ounce of enterprise is worth a pound of privilege.
FREDERIC R. MARVIN My glass is not large, but I drink from my glass. [Fr., Mon verre n'est pas grand, mais je bois da...
FREDERIC R. MARVIN Destiny has two ways of crushing us -- by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them.
HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL Doing easily what others find it difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius...
HENRI-FREDERIC AMIEL Thankfulness is the beginning of gratitude. Gratitude is the completion of thankfulness. Thankfulnes...
HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL