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If your fund changes managers, that's a red flag to pull your money.


Rick Applegate

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JEAN INGELOW Your flag and my flag, And how it flies today In your land and my land And half a world ...
WILBUR D. NESBIT Hedge fund managers charge so much more than mutual fund managers; alpha is even harder to come by. ...
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RICHELLE MEAD Use your profession to fund your passion.
HABEEB AKANDE Your flag and my flag,
And how it flies to-day
In your land and my land
And half a wo...
WILBUR D. NESBIT If fund managers apportion just a little of their funds into gold, the price goes up by quite a bit.
ERMIN SIOW It sends up a red flag to me as well.
JOYCE KESSE Cunning is a short blanket - if you pull it over your face, you expose your feet
PROVERB They've been soliciting in the Arvada area for many, many years, and they only take money, which in ...
DUANE YOUSE wasn't necessarily something that was a red-flag issue.
JOSEPH BROWN The key is to study the individual fund managers and their track records.
FILIPPO DE LUCA Anything that changes your values changes your behavior.
GEORGE SHEEHAN You lose a starting middle linebacker, ... thats the heart and soul of your defense.
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SARA QUIN Coach [Rick Barnes] always said, 'If you throw a pass to P.J., it's your fault if he doesn't catch i...
BRAD BUCKMAN It's really a way to disguise your fund-raising.
DANIEL BOROCHOFF I'd say it's a pink flag, not a red flag. It's not necessarily going to get you audited, but you hav...
MARTIN NISSENBAUM I learned to bet the Red Sox, the Celtics, Suffolk Downs. I thought it was a glorious life - pull up...
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CHLOE THURLOW Your skin will turn red if you're not careful.
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ELIZABETH BLACKBURN Your Flag Decal Won't Get You Into Heaven Anymore.
JOHN PRINE That's negative squared. It's like waving a red flag in front of a bull.
BILL LYNCH Love your neighbor, yet pull not down your hedge.
ENGLISH PROVERB Love your neighbour; yet don't pull down your hedge.
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PETER ANDERSON Post me to your heart, there I shall surrender my white flag!
FRANCESCO NICHOLAS CECE It's your job to figure out how to fund it,
GREG DUNN You can't go to sleep without a cup of tea and maybe thats the reason that you talk in your sleep...
LOUIS TOMLINSON I don't judge others. I say if you feel good with what you're doing, let your freak flag fly.
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EPHDAN Fund managers rushed to boost their portfolios that will be presented to clients at the end of the q...
JAMES LAGO He's one of those managers you'd give your left leg to play for.
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EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON If you pull some lame-ass 'I'm your father' bullshit, right now, I'm going to lose it.
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TONY OPPEGARD Money doesn’t help if your mind is poor; strength doesn’t help if your heart is weak; possession...
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO That was a big red flag for us; we need to work with organizers on it next year.
MARIA BROWN The abilities of man must fall short on one side or the other, like too scanty a blanket when you ar...
SIR WILLIAM TEMPLE The abilities of man must fall short on one side or the other, like too scanty a blanket when you ar...
THOMAS PAINE The abilities of man must fall short on one side or the other, like too scanty a blanket when you a...
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LORD HANSON Always be nice to bankers. Always be nice to pension fund managers. Always be nice to the media. In ...
JOHN GOTTI You can take it as understood That your luck changes only if it's good.
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RICK RIORDAN This is Annabeth,” Jason said. “Uh, normally she doesn't judo-flip people.
RICK RIORDAN You drool when you sleep.
RICK RIORDAN Hey, can I see that sword you were using?"
I showed him Riptide, and explained how it turned fr...
RICK RIORDAN I'm calm," Rachel insisted. "Every time I'm around you, some monsters attack us. What's to be nervou...
RICK RIORDAN Remind me again-why do you hate me so much?"

I don't hate you."

Could've foole...
RICK RIORDAN Leo: Rainbows. Very macho.
Annabeth: Butch is our best equestrian, he gets along great with the...
RICK RIORDAN It's okay,” he said. “We're together.” He didn't say you're okay, or we're alive...
RICK RIORDAN Monkey bar," Annabeth said. "I'm great at these." She leaped onto to the first rung and start swingi...
RICK RIORDAN She raised an eyebrow. "You got something to say to me, Seaweed Brain?"

You'd probably ki...
RICK RIORDAN Once she was gone, I knelt next to Annabeth and felt her forehead. She was still burning up.
"Y...
RICK RIORDAN Why can't you place a blessing like that on us?" I asked.

"It only works on wild animals....
RICK RIORDAN Percy: Don't I get a kiss for luck? It's kind of a tradition, right?
Annabeth: Come back alive,...
RICK RIORDAN You are okay?" he asked. "Not eaten by monsters?"
"Not even a little bit." I showed him that I ...
RICK RIORDAN What if it lines up like it did in the Trojan War ... Athena versus Poseidon?"
"I don't know. B...
RICK RIORDAN The real story of the Fleece: there were these two children of Zeus, Cadmus and Europa, okay? They w...
RICK RIORDAN A telkhine was hunched over a console, but he was so involved with his work, he didn't notice us. He...
RICK RIORDAN Percy (to Annabeth): If I was going to pick one person in the world to reattach my head, I'd pick yo...
RICK RIORDAN Dreams like a podcast,
Downloading truth in my ears.
They tell me cool stuff."
"Apoll...
RICK RIORDAN Young people don't always do what they're told, but if they can pull it off and do something wonderf...
RICK RIORDAN It's hard to enjoy practical jokes when your whole life feels like one.
RICK RIORDAN What doesn't kill us sharpens us. Hardens us. Schools us. You're beating plowshares into swords, Vos...
RICK YANCEY Rachel: You're a half-blood, too?
Annabeth: Shhh! Just announce it to the world, how about?
RICK RIORDAN I turned to Dionysus. "You cured him?"
"Madness is my specialty. It was quite simple."
"Bu...
RICK RIORDAN My name is Percy Jackson.
I'm twelve years old. Until a few months ago, I was a boarding stude...
RICK RIORDAN Hermes gazed up at the stars. "My dear young cousin, if there's one thing I've learned over the eons...
RICK RIORDAN