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Risk models are a substitute for historical knowledge, because they tend to work with just three years' worth of data. But three years is not a long time in financial history.
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As for ABC you can't take it personally. We had three good years.


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Who wakes up when they're worth Σ120million and says, 'I'm unhappy today but if only I had an extra Σ2million!'
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If I see an orchid that's fantastically expensive, I'll buy it. It's worth it, for no other reason than it gives me pleasure.
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I really like 'The Three Kings' DVD. I love that movie and all the extra footage and documentaries.


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I don't know whether you have done your calculations but, about two or three years back, I did a first assessment of what the first successful device would be worth and it came out at about 300 trillion dollars.
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The vine bears three kinds of grapes: the first of pleasure, the second of intoxication, the third of disgust.
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I do watch 'American Idol' sometimes. It's not really that pleasurable... I take that back. It is the epitome of a guilty pleasure. Sometimes there's some good singers on that show.
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I want to be on a successful team, and I know that paying one or two or three players premium hurts your chances of being able to bring in extra talent.
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The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.
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Years of happiness can be lost in the foolish gratification of a momentary desire for pleasure.


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Violence is black children going to school for 12 years and receiving 6 years' worth of education.


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That's just tragic, that you can spend four years of your life studying the design of three dimensional objects and not make one.
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To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice.
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I look three to five years ahead, not 10 years behind.


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I was a landscaper for three years and loved it.


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New ideas pass through three periods: 1) It can't be done. 2) It probably can be done, but it's not worth doing. 3) I knew it was a good idea all along!
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Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
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I bartended for a catering company for two or three years.


Hank Azaria
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I just don't know a couple that's been married more than three years that doesn't annoy the heck out of each other every 15 minutes.
Patricia Heaton
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