Quotation of the Day

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Quotation of the Day

"If someone came in today and made offers on what the core or operating business is worth today, it would probably be a lowball offer."

- Maynard Webb, the chairman of Yahoo.

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Seriously, if you haven't read Flash Boys, you should! Here's a follow-up.
Quotation of the Day

"We have a life boat in IEX in the rough seas filled with sharks."
- Edwin James Boyce, an individual investor in North Carolina, writing to the S.E.C.

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QUOTATION OF THE DAY

"Homes? There are no homes."

GEN. ALI JAMEEL, an Iraqi counterterrorism officer, on how residents of Ramadi, Iraq, a city devastated by ISIS, might return to their homes.

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QUOTATION OF THE DAY

"I haven't seen this large of a division in my career. You probably have to go back to Ford versus Reagan in 1976. But that was only two people."


JOHN McCAIN, the United States senator from Arizona first elected to Congress in 1982, on a historic split in the Republican Party over its fundamental principles and identity.

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Quote from conservative writer Sean Kennedy: "When pollsters and demographers examine "Trump voters" they find them largely white, angry, and economically struggling. Their America appears to be in the rear view mirror. We don't need more damage to the conservative brand. Trump must be destroyed or conservatism and the GOP will be."

-------------billy

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Quotation of the Day

"Technically we are in a bear market. ... There is just a broad reassessment of risk right now."

- Laurence D. Fink, the chief executive of BlackRock, the world's largest money management company.

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"I don't know where I'm going from here, but I promise it won't be boring" David Bowie

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Quotation of the Day

"Traders are worried that the financial market weakness that we're experiencing is going to lead to weakness in the real economy."

- Jim McDonald, chief investment strategist at Northern Trust.

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QUOTATION OF THE DAY

"I am truly, completely undecided. I have no earthly idea what I'm going to do at the end of the day."


BARBARA WILSON, 64, an undecided voter in Henniker, N.H., who said she likes Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders and Marco Rubio.

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QUOTATION OF THE DAY

"It's nice that science fiction exists because these are really creative people figuring out what the ultimate use of any technology might be. They come up with a lot of incredible ideas."


PALMER LUCKEY, 23, a co-founder of Oculus, a leading virtual reality company, on figuring out how people will interact with the imaginary worlds VR technology is creating.

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"Shoot all the bluejays you can, if you can hit 'em, but remember, it's a sin to kill a mockingbird." Harper Lee

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The Name of the Rose!

http://www.msn.com/en-us/entertainment/books/italian-writer-umberto-eco-dies-at-84/ar-BBpISBw?ocid=spartanntp

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ON THIS DAY

On Feb. 23, 1954, the first mass inoculation of children against polio with the Salk vaccine began in Pittsburgh.

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"My party has gone batshit crazy." Rep. Lindsey Graham

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"No, Ted Cruz is not the Zodiac killer."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/02/25/the-definitive-debunking-ted-cruz-is-not-the-zodiac-killer/