"Already at the origin of the species man was equal to what he was destined to become."

-- Jean Rostand

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“I think people have a tendency to read into more than there is.”
“The reason is they failed to learned the primary lesson we should have learned from when Long Term Capital Management went belly up ten years ago. That is, investments that seem uncorrelated can be correlated simply because we're interested in it.”

Source : "Big Think Interview With Richard Thaler". bigthink.com. June 19, 2009.
“The reason I write is that I'm not in dialogue with my emotions; writing puts me in touch with myself.”
“And for the sake of humility--a characteristic crucial to sacred questioning we might do well to confess that we're capable at any moment of such bad religion ourselves.”
“If you sit in a position where decisions that you take would have a serious effect on people, you can't ignore a lot of experience around the world which says this drug has these negative effects.”
“In selling as in medicine, prescription before diagnosis is malpractice.”

Source : Tony Alessandra, Phil Wexler, Anthony J. Alessandra, Rick Barrera (1992). “Non-Manipulative Selling”, p.11, Simon and Schuster
“I have touched here on a problem that is masked if one speaks of racism. And that is the fact that the major differences between the established and outsiders group, which create tension and irritation, is not the form of the face or the skin color but the form of behavior: something learned. The form of behavior and feeling, of sentiment, is different in the immigrant groups from that of the established groups, and that may give rise to an enormous irritation.”

Source : Source: quod.lib.umich.edu
“The highest purpose of intellectual cultivation is to give a man a perfect knowledge and mastery of his own inner self.”

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