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"Although the Internet makes it seem as if you have a direct connection to the securities market, you don't. Lines may clog; systems may break; orders may back-up."
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"Connect and communicate to sacred strangers in daily life."

"When we are willing to explore our own experiences, we open the doorway to deeper connection and intimacy."

"There is nothing in this world that never takes a step outside a person's heart."

"The Christian doctrine of suffering explains, I believe, a very curious fact about the world we live in. The settled happiness and security which we all desire, God withholds from us by the nature of the world: but joy, pleasure, and merriment He has scattered broadcast...The security we crave would teach us to rest our hearts in this world and oppose an obstacle to our return to God...Our Father refreshes us on the journey with some pleasant inns, but will not encourage us to mistake them for home."

"Conflict connects us to life, just as life connects us to conflict."

"The people in your life will either help you shake hands with yourself or they'll teach you what you don't want. Everyone, eventually, does one or the other. All pain transforms to learning. All love transforms to self-awareness."

"We touch people mostly without touching them: We touch them with our words, with our smile, with our eyes, with our courage, with our madness, with millions of different ways! What are we? We are contacting beings without contacting!"

"If every day you were to walk past the same individual and ignore him, never smiling or saying hello or returning any kind gesture he extended toward you, would you expect that same individual to readily respond if suddenly you were to implore his helping hand? Then don't ignore God. Say 'hello' now and then."

"Wherever I travel to, I encounter great souls."
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"Today, the forces of competition, technology, and globalization have converged to spur innovation and to transform the way business is done in the securities industry."

"One way for investors to protect themselves from a rapid change in the price of a stock is to use a limit order rather than a market order."

"Our role is to maintain and monitor a framework in which fair competition can flourish."

"Our markets have not achieved their great successes as a result of government fiat, but rather through efforts of competing interests working to meet the demands of investors and to fulfill the promises posed by advancing technology."

"Our purpose, as we face these challenges, remains clear - fair and orderly markets that allow for efficient capital formation, while protecting the interests of investors."

"Another misconception is that an order is canceled when you hit 'cancel' on your computer. But, the fact is it's canceled only when the market gets the cancellation."

"I think that the failures of Enron and WorldCom and other companies are partially failures of investors to recognize companies that are selling for a thousand times nothing, but chances are they may be worth only that."

"I think we have got to start thinking about banding together in terms of interested groups."

"It is incumbent on us to facilitate the development of a market structure that best assures that these changes benefit the U.S. securities markets as a whole."

"What must occur is a greater recognition by investors of their individual responsibility."
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