Sentences with phrase «imperturbability of»
And if all the generations that have lived on earth rose up and united into one crowd in order to charge against eternity and to coerce it also with their enormous majority, eternity splits them up as easily as the imperturbability of the cliff that, without moving from the spot, disperses the foaming surf, as easily as a storm wind in its advance scatters the chaff.»
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As we mentioned in a previous shareholder letter, Jason Zweig, the noted Wall Street Journal columnist and author of Your Money and Your Brain (2007), credited much of the investment success of value investors such as Warren Buffett (Trades, Portfolio) and Benjamin Graham to being «inversely emotional,» i.e., sharing a quality that goes beyond calm, «a certain imperturbability or implacability.»