"The world clings to its old mental picture of the stock market because itâ€™s comforting; because itâ€™s so hard to draw a picture of what has replaced it; and because the few people able to draw it for you have no interest in doing so."

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Source : "Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt". Book by Lewis Michael, March 31, 2014.

Michael Lewis

#People Quotes #Comforting Quotes #World Quotes

“Earth Day was created because we were doing a lot of drugs, more drugs than you could ever f@*! imagine. And so we came up with Earth Day, so we'd have one day that would remind us what planet we were living on.”
“Your brain has an in-built mechanism for finding patterns you've programmed because of where you've put your attention. Solutions, innovations, and success come not from greater intelligence or creativity but from what we notice because of where we point those attributes”
“God . . . endowed [the human race] with capacity to attain to the inaccessible and invisible Supreme Good and behold it face to face . . .”
“If you try to please audiences, uncritically accepting their tastes, it can only mean that you have no respect for them: that you simply want to collect their money.”
“Thousands of years people have taken drugs, whether it's alcohol, which was invented about 5,000 years ago. People have been using that. And all kinds of ***** and all these things, tobacco. So all these drugs have been - it seems to be the propensity of human beings to want to use them.”
“A metaphysical conclusion is either a false conclusion or a concealed experimental conclusion.”

Source : Hermann von Helmholtz, David Cahan (1995). “Science and Culture: Popular and Philosophical Essays”, p.326, University of Chicago Press
“In the nurturing family...parents see themselves as empowering leaders not as authoritative bosses. They see their job primarily as one of teaching their children how to be truly human in all situations. They readily acknowledge to the child their poor judgment as well as their good judgment; their hurt, anger, or disappointment as well as their joy. The behavior of these parents matches what they say.”
“I see no present solution of a great and intricate problem but that the rich should realize their duty to the poor.”

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