"Here was a strange but true fact: The closer you were to the market, the harder it was to perceive its folly."

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Source : Michael Lewis (2015). “The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine (movie tie-in)”, p.105, W. W. Norton & Company

Michael Lewis

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“I've always tried to be cheerful, because I think people who whine are boring, and I never could tolerate bores.”
“Our single greatest defense against scientific ignorance is education, and early in the life of every scientist, the child's first interest was sparked by a teacher.”

Source : Nobel Banquet Speech, www.nobelprize.org. December 10, 2003.
“It is certainly a wonderful, a brain-staggering conception... that our own stellar universe may be but one of hundreds of thousands of similar universes... Familiarity with these mighty concepts most certainly does not breed contempt, does not dull our awe at the mightiness of the universe in which we play so small a part. It is very doubtful if any of those who are seriously studying the heavens ever lose their feeling of reverence for this supremely wonderful universe and for Whoever or Whatever must be behind it all.”
“advance money is really a delusion, that is to say, I get no more until it is paid out in sales, but still, living from hand to mouth and day to day as I do, a nickel in the hand is more useful than the same nickel next year. What do I know about next year? I've never been there. I don't know any one who has.”
“There's really nothing else I'm going to do with my life. I'd be useless if I weren't singing or acting”
“I don't need the fame right now; I'm not running from the law.”
“All my life I've worked to try to correct and perfect our system of government to make it more fair.”

Source : Source: www.thedailybeast.com
“The school-room sends men to the Legislature, to the bench, and the executive office. The bar-room sends them to the scaffold and hell.”

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