"History demonstrates that participants in financial markets are susceptible to waves of optimism. Excessive optimism shows the seeds of its own reversal in the form of imbalances that tend to grow over time."

-- Alan Greenspan

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“I feel the same way about all my friends. To me, the exact relationship between me and someone else doesn't matter much.But people want to label everything...so I guess I seem indifferent in that way. ---Yasu”
“The delicate balance between modesty and conceit is popularity.”
“There is something feeble and a little contemptible about a man who cannot face the perils of life without the help of comfortable myths. Almost inevitably some part of him is aware that they are myths and that he believes them only because they are comforting. But he dare not face this thought! Moreover, since he is aware, however dimly, that his opinions are not rational, he becomes furious when they are disputed.”
“Avarice and luxury, those evils which have been the ruin of every great state.”
“There are few people with such talent, so there are few able to judge what I am doing.”
“He set the example for all of us to humble ourselves before our Heavenly Father.”
“The powers of nature are never in repose; her work never stands still.”

Source : William Wordsworth, Adam Sedgwick (1842). “A complete guide to the Lakes, comprising minute directions for the tourist, with mr. Wordsworth's Description of the scenery of the country, &c. and Three letters upon the geology of the Lake district, by prof. Sedgwick”
“In 1980, I moved to Chicago, and I recorded demo tapes for my friends' bands, and in 1981, the first Big Black record - the first thing I did that was an actual record.”

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