"Reflecting an amalgam of economics, monetary, and psychological factors, the stock market represents possibly the most subtly intricate game invented by man."

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Source : "The Theory of Gambling and Statistical Logic". Book by Richard Arnold Epstein, 1977.

Richard Arnold Epstein

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“When you take a photo at 1/1000 of a second, the moment can become an eternal fact, an eternal moment. So we have a philosophical problem of objectivity and subjectivity.”
“This is our message - killing is wrong. Mass killing is wrong. Threatening mass destruction is a denial of our own humanity and is suicidal. When something is wrong we have to stop it. Dismantling the machinery of destruction is thus a practical act of love that we can all join in. Please join us - together we are unstoppable.”

Source : Jonathan Schell (2000). “The Fate of the Earth: And, The Abolition”, p.182, Stanford University Press
“I don't have any particular beef with Barbara Boxer. My beef is with the official Democratic doctrine that anybody who reaches Boxer's position has to spout and has to endorse.”

Source : RealClearPolitics interview, www.realclearpolitics.com. March 12, 2010.
“Despite the best of efforts, many foster children are neither reunited with their families, nor adopted.”
“We could decide simply to remain absorbed in the mysterious, unformed, free-play of reality. This would be the choice of the mystic who seeks to extinguish himself in God or Nirvanaâ€”analogous perhaps to the tendency among artists to obliterate themselves with alcohol or opiates. But if we value our participation in a shared reality in which it makes sense to make sense, then such self-abnegation would deny a central element of our humanity: the need to speak and act, to share our experience with others.”
“People who are employed in a way they don't like - my heart cries for them.”
“There's room for magic and inspiration. There's room to live a better story.”
“Once I engage in something, I really engage in it, and I love the process of reading and researching because I come from an academic background.”

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