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We've had a 7.5 percent correction in the Nasdaq and something more modest in the Dow and S&P 500 over the last six weeks, so you've got a little bounce right now,


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JOSEPH CONRAD Philosophers call God the great unknown The great misknown is more like it!
JOSEPH ROUX Perfection is the child of time.
JOSEPH HALL Perhaps some of us have to go through dark and devious ways before we can find the river of peace or...
JOSEPH CAMPBELL What all men are really after is some form, or perhaps only some formula, of peace.
JOSEPH CONRAD There is a slowness in affairs which ripens them, and a slowness which rots them.
JOSEPH ROUX Our ideals, like pictures, are made from lights and shadows.
JOSEPH JOUBERT There is always some frivolity in excellent minds; they have wings to rise, but also stray.
JOSEPH JOUBERT Politeness is the flower of humanity.
JOSEPH JOUBERT It is not true that democracy will always safeguard freedom of conscience better than autocracy. Wit...
JOSEPH SCHUMPETER Monuments are the grappling-irons that bind one generation to another.
JOSEPH JOUBERT There are men here and there to whom the whole of life is like an after-dinner hour with a cigar; ea...
JOSEPH CONRAD Legislation, both statutory and constitutional, is enacted, it is true, from an experience of evils ...
JOSEPH MCKENNA If you go in for argument, take care of your temper. Your logic, if you have any, will take care of ...
JOSEPH FARRELL The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.
JOSEPH JOUBERT Enjoy your happiness while you have it, and while, you have it do not too closely scrutinize its fou...
JOSEPH FARRELL People say that what we're all seeking is a meaning for life... I think that what we're really seeki...
JOSEPH CAMPBELL It seems to have had an order, to have been composed by someone, and those events that were merely a...
JOSEPH CAMPBELL Life, the way it really is, is a battle not between Bad and Good but between Bad and Worse.
JOSEPH BRODSKY What should I say about life? That it's long and abhors transparence.
JOSEPH BRODSKY I want to keep my dreams, even bad ones, because without them, I might have nothing all night long.
JOSEPH HELLER Follow your bliss.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL The notion of this universe, its heavens, hells, and everything within it, as a great dream dreamed ...
JOSEPH CAMPBELL A man that is born falls into a dream like a man who falls into the sea. If he tries to climb out in...
JOSEPH CONRAD How delightful to find a friend in everyone.
JOSEPH BRODSKY Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief.
JOSEPH ADDISON Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily diss...
JOSEPH ADDISON The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures.
JOSEPH ADDISON