This is going to be a time that tests people's conviction, and people have thought often of how much money they can make and not enough about the question: How much can you lose? I'm reminded of a great quote by Warren Buffett when he said: 'It's only when the tide goes out that you see who is swimming without a bathing suit,'


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When a language creates -- as it does -- a community within the present, it does so only by courtes...
CHRISTOPHER RICKS
Only the sinner has a right to preach.
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY
The courage of the Poet is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness.
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY
If you have to keep reminding yourself of a thing, perhaps it isn't so.
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY
Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really impor...
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY
There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you your...
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY
No man is lonely while eating spaghetti. It requires so much attention.
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY
There is only one success-to be able to live your life in your own way.
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY
There are three ingredients in the good life: yearning, learning, and earning.
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY
No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as much as the dog does.
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY
If we all discovered that we only had five minutes left to say all that we wanted to say, every tele...
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY
There is only one success-to be able to spend your life in your own way.
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY
The fragility of love is what is most at stake here—humanity's most crucial three-word avowal is o...
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS
Nobody's perfect. Well, there was this one guy, but we killed him....
CHRISTOPHER MOORE
I think I have a very good idea why it is that anti-Semitism is so tenacious and so protean and so e...
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS
If you think anyone is sane you just don't know enough about them.
CHRISTOPHER MOORE
One notorious apikoros named Hiwa al-Balkhi, writing in ninth-century Persia, offered two hun...
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS
Because you can't argue with all the fools in the world. It's easier to let them have their way, the...
CHRISTOPHER PAOLINI
What is it you most dislike? Stupidity, especially in its nastiest forms of racism and supers...
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS
We keep on being told that religion, whatever its imperfections, at least instills morality. On ever...
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS
That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS
To terrify children with the image of hell, to consider women an inferior creation—is that good fo...
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS
Owners of dogs will have noticed that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affec...
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS
People have an annoying habit of remembering things they shouldn't.
CHRISTOPHER PAOLINI
Relationships are mysterious. We doubt the positive qualities in others, seldom the negative. You wi...
CHRISTOPHER PIKE
Let's say that the consensus is that our species, being the higher primates, Homo Sapiens, has been ...
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS
The opposite of love is not hate. It is indifference.
CHRISTOPHER PIKE
If it’s going to be a world with no time for sentiment, it’s not a world that I want to live in.
CHRISTOPHER ISHERWOOD
Live in the present, remember the past, and fear not the future, for it doesn't exist and never shal...
CHRISTOPHER PAOLINI
Without fear there cannot be courage.
CHRISTOPHER PAOLINI
Keep in mind that many people have died for their beliefs; it's actually quite common. The real cour...
CHRISTOPHER PAOLINI
Children see magic because they look for it.
CHRISTOPHER MOORE
Saphira waved her tail, the tip whistling loudly. "I'm not asking you to. However, if we attack firs...
CHRISTOPHER PAOLINI
Have I ever told you how glad I am we're not enemies? Eragon asked.
No, but it's very...
CHRISTOPHER PAOLINI
But now isn’t simply now. Now is also a cold reminder: one whole day later than yesterday, one yea...
CHRISTOPHER ISHERWOOD
Alcohol makes other people less tedious, and food less bland, and can help provide what the Greeks c...
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS
So the question becomes, If you are ever faced with this choice are you willing to die for what you ...
CHRISTOPHER PAOLINI
It is a better world. A place where we ate responsible for our actions, where we can be kind to one ...
CHRISTOPHER PAOLINI
Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinki...
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY
You should be nicer to him,' a schoolmate had once said to me of some awfully ill-favored boy. 'He h...
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS
What do you most value in your friends?
Their continued existence.
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS
she lived with hurricane eyes and fell in love with the way the waves collapsed against her cheeks.
CHRISTOPHER POINDEXTER
Well, writing novels is incredibly simple: an author sits down…and writes.

Granted, mos...
CHRISTOPHER HOPPER
He that loves pleasure must for pleasure fall.
CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE
Ah, pay no heed if your enemies laugh. They'll not be able to once you lop off their heads.
CHRISTOPHER PAOLINI
Once women begin to question the inevitability of their subordination and to reject the conventions ...
CHRISTOPHER LASCH
The job of the press is to encourage debate, not to supply the public with information.
CHRISTOPHER LASCH
We need to distinguish between nostalgia and the reassuring memory of happy times, which serves to l...
CHRISTOPHER LASCH
I sometimes think
His critical judgement is so exquisite
It leaves us nothing to admire except...
CHRISTOPHER FRY
Today Americans are overcome not by the sense of endless possibility but by the banality of the soci...
CHRISTOPHER LASCH