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John Green

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He'd never been all that good at math, but he was a goddamned world-famous expert in getting dumped.
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Colin Singleton, p. 60

 
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Markets are fundamentally volatile. No way around it. Your prolem is not in the math. There is no math to get you out of having to experience uncertainty.

 
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