Whitney Tilson

The exact details of how you practice value investing will vary investor to investor, but the fundamental principle of scouring the world, looking for dollar bills that you can buy for 50 cents or at some big discount - that is universal to value investing.

American Businessman

Geraldine Brooks

Sometimes I want to have a mental book burning that would scour my mind clean of all the filthy visions literature has conjured there. But how to do without 'The Illiad?' How to do without 'Macbeth?

Australian Journalist

Troy Carter

I don't think we're out there aggressively looking for deals. Our strategy is that business follows the creative. We're not out there scouring the marketplace for opportunities.

American Producer

Brad Holland

Many people decorate their homes with designer graffiti, even though most of them would probably have real graffiti scoured off the walls of their buildings.

American Artist

Richard Ford

I haven't scoured Dixie out of my voice. But I don't think that the books that I have written... have really in any way been Southern in character.

American Author

Jami Attenberg

My Twitter feed is probably my biggest resource of news. Other people scour the web so I do not have to, and I thank them for it.

Ben Dolnick

I've sold all but one of my microphones, put away my mini-notebooks, stopped scouring the Internet for scraps of wisdom.

American Writer

William Shakespeare

I were better to be eaten to death with a rust than to be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion.

English Playwright

John Ruskin

Some slaves are scoured to their work by whips, others by their restlessness and ambition.

English Writer

Ray Fearon

I'd like to meet someone. I'm not scouring the streets, but I'll keep an eye out.

Actor

Indicates vigorous cleaning, often needing effort and abrasive tools.

Cleaning Intensity

Often involves using abrasive materials like scouring pads or heavy-duty cleaners.

Rough Materials

Used when trying to remove stubborn dirt to restore an object's look.

Restoring Appearance

Conveys a sense of searching extensively in every part of an area.

Thorough Search

Used metaphorically for intensive searching online or through databases.

Digital Searching

Suggests a persistent effort until the person finds what they're looking for.

Persistence Implied

Used in veterinary contexts, not for human medical conditions.

Medical Specific

Indicates a condition that is severe and could be life-threatening.

Seriousness

Describes the effect of natural elements like wind or water shaping the earth.

Natural Forces

Implies a forceful and potentially damaging process of erosion.

Destructive Power

 And fish are much more interesting than corals, because they have really advanced vision, and some of the fish even have, the way that I was photographing it, they have lenses in their eyes that would magnify the fluorescence. So I wanted to seek this out further. So we designed a new set of gear and we're scouring the reefs around the world,

Glow-in-the-dark sharks...

 making players partners in the league, entitled to shares of ticket revenues and television contracts. Suddenly, anybody who could be an NBA player wanted to be, and teams started scouring the globe for the bodies that could help them win championships. Almost overnight, the proportion of men in the NBA

Are athletes really...

 and so we hold ourselves back from joy, and we end up in a world that looks like this. But if the aesthetics of joy can be used to help us find more joy in the world around us, then couldn't they also be used to create more joy? I spent that last two years scouring the planet,

Where joy hides and how...

 and quickly sense changes in light. Some had long eye stalks that helped them peep above the muddy sea floor as they burrowed beneath. Others had large dragonfly-like eyes that they probably used to scour the ocean bottom as they swam upside-down in dim waters.

Is this the most...

 he's just helping her oh it's a trunk coming down that's really wonderful you know what that's a testament to how much Weaver has come on he's pushing herself she's testing her abilities she's back on dry land now it scours tournament

Baby Elephant's Adorable...

 years ago Marc's been exploring the world for a long time and I consider him probably one of the most prolific exploratory rock climbers out there he's basically scoured the earth in search of rock climbing and some of the most

To Climb the World PIPE...

 then it's not because of deep blue. The reason for the attacks remains elusive. But while scouring the ocean for an explanation, experts come across something else that also ensnares large amounts of a tiger shark's prey.

Could Sport Fishing...

 something very tangible about these alien worlds and that makes them very special to me I am resurrecting this particular ecosystem through my fieldwork in the Sahara scouring the

Inside the new Old World...

 Our team has scoured humanity's wisdom for solutions to draw down heat-trapping, climate-changing emissions in the atmosphere -- not "someday, maybe, if we're lucky" solutions,

How empowering women and...

 and scoured by freezing winds the island lies at canada's most northern tip extending right up to 84 degrees north it crowns some of the world's most pristine wilderness

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