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Even for practical purposes theory generally turns out the most important thing in the end. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

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First of all, as a man the most important thing you have in your life now is your child that you're carrying. That's it. Everything else comes second; personally, for me, other than your relationship with God and your wife. ↗

— Allan Houston

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The high food value of field beans and the shortage of supply due to the light yields of 1915 and 1916 render them of great importance in the regions to which they are adapted. ↗

— David F. Houston

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The importance to the nation of a generously adequate food supply for the coming year cannot be overemphasized, in view of the economic problems which may arise as a result of the entrance of the United States into the war. ↗

— David F. Houston

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I am an engineer, but what I find important and necessary is that you just learn things as you go along. ↗

— Terrence Howard

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One important measurement issue concerns the fat tails problem that I mentioned earlier. VAR is concerned with extreme outcomes. If the tails of the probability distributions we are using are too thin, our VAR measures are likely to be too low. ↗

— John Hull

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The HoLee model was the first term structure model. I remember reading their paper soon after it was published and as it was fairly different from many of the other papers that I had read, I had to read it quite a few times. I realized that it was a really important paper. ↗

— John Hull

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There are challenges in terms of the measurement of VAR for what are known as nonlinear derivatives, where things like gamma and vega are important dimensions of the risk. ↗

— John Hull

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I've been around racing a fairly long time, but when it comes to the important issues, I'm happy to let others make the big decisions. ↗

— Mats Sundin

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We need more foreign reach; no question about that. And we're working on getting that. We need more people abroad; we need some more bureaus. That is really an important job. ↗

— Brit Hume

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