The model used by Wall Street to price trillions of dollar's worth of derivatives thought of the financial world as an orderly, continuous process. But the world was not continuous; it changed discontinuously, and often by accident.
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Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much.
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If the great Captain of Plymouth is so very eager to wed me, Why does he not come himself, and take the trouble to woo me? If I am not worth the wooing, I surely am not worth the winning!
trouble worth
Formulae are the anaesthetics of thought, not its stimulants and to make any one think is far better worth while than cramming him with ill-considered, and therefore indigestible, learning.
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The only thing in the world worth a damn is the strange, touching, pathetic, awesome nobility of the individual human spirit.
worth nobility
Perseverance is the master impulse of the firmest souls, the discipline of the noblest virtues, and the guaranty of acquisitions the most invigorating in their use and inestimable in their worth.
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Culture is worth a little risk.
culture worth
It was almost worth dying to know all the trouble he'd made.
On the morning after the battle, the crows had feasted on victors and vanquished alike, as once they had feasted on Rhaegar Targaryen after the Trident. How much can a crown be worth, when a crow can dine upon a king?
I find myself in situations that I know would be unbelievable pictures and I have to gauge, Is this worth taking the camera out? Am I gonna lose the moment? Am I gonna get a dirty look from Sting?
If you're right, and nobody really cares what's out there, I wonder whether we're even worth saving.
rights wonder wonders worth
His was the scorn which thinks it not worth the while to be scornful. Those he most scorned, never knew it.
Not till the fire is dying in the grate, Look we for any kinship with the stars. Oh, wisdom never comes when it is gold, And the great price we pay for it full worth: We have it only when we are half earth.
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You know, Don, marriage is worth the trade. You lose all your freedom but you get this friend. This incredible friend.
marriage worth
In response to Lady Mary Montague's line 'And we meet, with champagne and a chicken at last' (from Montague's poem 'The Lover: A Ballad'): What say you to such a supper with such a woman?.. Is not her 'champagne and chicken' worth a forest or two? Is it not poetry?
poetry worth
Whoever criticizes others must have something to replace them. Criticism without suggestion is like trying to stop flood with flood and put out fire with fire. It will surely be without worth.
I thought how terrible it would have been if, as could so easily have happened, I had died without knowing this depth of satisfaction, this other person that I had just discovered within myself. It was worth any price, any consequence.
And a thimble's worth of milky moon Can touch hearts larger than a thimble.
Human problems are complex. If something isn't complex it doesn't qualify as problematic. Very simple bad things are not worth troubling ourselves about.
Not worth his salt.
We seem never to know what any thing means or is worth until we have lost it.
A bit is worth 10,000 basis points.
First and foremost it is worth acknowledging that the demise of the Soviet Union was the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the century.
Thank you for touching me. Some of the only moments worth living were spent with you. Not you especially, the collective you.
When we come to dealing with our social and industrial needs, remedies, rights and wrongs, a ton of oration is not worth an ounce of hard-headed, kindly common-sense.
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