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“Winwood Reade is good upon the subject,” said Holmes. “He remarks that, while the individual man is an insoluble puzzle, in the aggregate he becomes a mathematical certainty. You can, for example, never foretell what any one man will do,
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This passage leaves me wondering if it were perhaps the inspiration for Isaac Asimov's Pyschohistory in the Foundation novels. It certainly succinctly encapsulates the prime theory that underpins it!
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“civilization has absolutely no need of nobility or heroism. These things are symptoms of political inefficiency. In a properly organized society like ours”
― Brave New World
― Brave New World
“Gold is the money of kings, silver is the money of gentlemen, barter is the money of peasants – but debt is the money of slaves.”
― Money & Wealth in the New Millennium: A Prophetic Guide to the New World Economic Order
― Money & Wealth in the New Millennium: A Prophetic Guide to the New World Economic Order
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