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If you are not egotistical, you will welcome the opportunity to learn more.

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John Templeton
Age: 95 †
Born: 1912
Born: November 29
Died: 2008
Died: July 8
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John Marks Templeton
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Bull markets are born on pessimism, grown on skepticism, mature on optimism and die on euphoria. The time of maximum pessimism is the best time to buy, and the time of maximum optimism is the best time to sell.
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The idea that an individual can find God is terribly self-centered. It is like a wave thinking it can find the sea.
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Before this century is over, the Dow Jones Industrial Average will probably be over one million versus around 10,000 now. So for the long-term, the outlook is tremendously bullish if you buy stocks blindly to keep for a century.
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An attitude of gratitude creates blessings. Help yourself by helping others. You have the most powerful weapons on earth - love and prayer.
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If we become increasingly humble about how little we know, we may be more eager to search.
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You must be a fundamentalist to be really successful in the market.
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The time of maximum pessimism is the best time to buy.
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Usually God favours the people who try to do good. So, when you find that the crowd is desperately trying to sell, help them and buy. When you find that the crowd is overenthusiastically trying to buy, help them and sell. It usually works out.
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I'm really convinced that our descendants a century or two from now will look back at us with the same pity that we have toward the people in the field of science two centuries ago.
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If governments encourage people to become more spiritual there will be a reduction in healthcare costs.
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For those properly prepared, the bear market is not only a calamity but an opportunity.
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If you want to have a better performance than the crowd, you must do things differently from the crowd.
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Sell a stock only when you have found a new stock that is a 50% better bargain than the one that you hold.
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The question is not is there a God, but is there anything else except God? God is everyone and each of us is a little bit.
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The opposite of humility is arrogance--the belief that we are wiser or better than others. Arrogance promotes separation rather than community. It looms like a brick wall between us and those from whom we could learn.
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The correct description is that we try every day to become more humble when we talk about divinity, we try to realize how little we know and how open minded we should be. It's self centered to think that human beings, as limited as we are, can describe divinity.
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Living life with a smile is like throwing yeast into a bowl of flour, adding warm water and waiting for the flour to rise. It multiplies may times over.
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Never forget: the secret of creating riches for oneself is to create them for others.
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A flower is a miracle, but it does not have the sight or speech to describe us. And our own ability is no greater than that flower when we try to describe God. His infinity covers not only one planet, but the entire solar system and 100 billion suns. That doesn't mean he is limited in his ability to be part of you.
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It's self-centered to think that human beings, as limited as we are, can describe divinity.
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