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A Market Timing Myth

The Journal of Investing, 2000
Several securities and plannig firms publish a demonstration of the dramatically reduced returms that an investor would see if the investor were out of the market for the 10, 20, 30, or 40 best days over a time period such as 5 to 10 years. They claim this is a demonstration of the pitfalls of market timing.
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The Myth of the Passage of Time

1972
The main purpose of this paper is to point out that the technique, familiar to physicists, of adopting various representations of physical phenomena for various purposes is convenient (and, I believe, necessary) in order to clarify some of the aspects of time that have been regarded as mysterious.
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Time to bust the myth?

British Journal of Sports Medicine, 2015
Recent editorials have renewed the debate over the possible contribution of a secular decrease in habitual physical activity to the current obesity epidemic.1 ,2 In arguing against the role of physical inactivity, Malhotra et al 1 cite a widely criticised opinion piece3 ,4 suggesting there has been “little change of physical activity levels in the past
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The Myths of Time Management

CoatingsPro, 2006
Managing your hectic schedule can be as easy as one, two, three. Learn the secrets of time management.
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Architectonic and Myth Time

Studia Phaenomenologica, 2008
In a Working Note to The Visible and the Invisible, Merleau-Ponty uses the fine phraseology of an "architectonic past" and a "mythical time" to describe Proust's remembrances of things past. This paper first considers how this architectonic past sheds light on Merleau-Ponty's ontology, and second how this results in a mythical time, which is an ...
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Metaphor, Myth, and Symbol in the Grain of Time

2023
Abstract This chapter begins by analyzing metaphoric and spatialized conceptualizations of time in theories of human social evolution, from the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century onwards. The situatedness in European imperial conquest of the concept of social progress, as well as the denial of coevalness to non-Western peoples,
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Of Time and Personal Myth

Perceptual and Motor Skills, 1985
Self-realization, like music, images time. But whereas music images lived time, self-realization images the virtual time particular to personal myth. In the well-lived life the sense of eternal return native to personal myth becomes an awareness of continual, richening return to what we now are and always have been. The recurrence transtemporalizes us,
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Portuguese Myths and Time

Diogenes, 1995
By Portuguese myths we mean several kinds of narratives, all of which actualize fundamental aspects of the Portuguese national imagination. Some are foundation narratives (Sâo Mamede, Ourique); others are historical facts that were sung so often over the years by Portuguese and foreign poets that they came to signify basic schemes ...
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Time to demolish the myths surrounding sexuality

Nursing Older People, 2001
The Victorians knew a thing or two about building bridges, railways and tunnels and could knock up grand and imposing buildings at the drop of a top hat. But while their engineering and construction skills helped drive on the modern age, when it came to formulating a progressive attitude towards sex they were clueless.
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Time in Therapeutic Relationships: Myths and Realities

Southern Medical Journal, 1986
Both physicians and patients hold myths about the uses and value of time in therapeutic relationships. The realities about time differ. A review of studies of patient compliance and satisfaction with health care indicated that the amount of time spent with patients was not as important as the quality or content of time.
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