You really must look at your entire portfolio and not look just at the past quarter or even the last year, ... Extraordinary expectations have been built into fund performance for almost six years now. You've witnessed returns of 20 percent or more in most stock equity funds, but in some cases they're just not sustainable.
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He was an extremely gifted musician ... he had something in his brain and soul that most people just don't have,Burton
A loss is a loss, ... We've got to learn to go out and finish games. I'd grade my play today as a failure. If you don't win, you've failed.
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We have to be 100 percent committed to the task. When we do that, we're pretty good. When we choose to take downs off, we're average. So far we haven't committed to that 100-percent level yet.
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When you say something to the mother, she wants to fist-fight you, ... I just wish something could be done.
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This was a very serious accident with major health consequences, especially for thousands of workers exposed in the early days who received very high radiation doses, and for the thousands more stricken with thyroid cancer, ... By and large, however, we have not found profound negative health impacts to the rest of the population in surrounding areas, nor have we found widespread contamination that would continue to pose a substantial threat to human health, (apart from) a few exceptional, restricted areas.
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We're certainly not saying that we shouldnt do the mainstream or the orthodox approaches, ... The mainstream, orthodox approaches are invariably mainstream and orthodox for a very good reason, which is that they're very promising. But one has to be careful to not conclude from that that they're the only way of doing it. So we're constantly trying to skirt this realm of not being exactly the same as every other institute and just follow the orthodoxy, but by no means being a wacky institute or an institute of lost causes.
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