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John Kenneth Galbraith
“Anyone taken as an individual is tolerably sensible and reasonable - as a member of a crowd, he at once becomes a blockhead. - Friedrich Von Schiller, as quoted by Bernard Baruch”
John Kenneth Galbraith, A Short History of Financial Euphoria

Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“Never ask a man if he is from Sparta: If he were, he would have let you know such an important fact - and if he were not, you could hurt his feelings.”
Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets
tags: tact

George Sand
“Charity degrades those who receive it and hardens those who dispense it.”
George Sand

Adam Smith
“It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own self-interest. We address ourselves not to their humanity but to their self-love, and never talk to them of our own necessities, but of their advantages”
Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature & Causes of the Wealth of Nations, Vol 1

Thomas Carlyle
“I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.”
Thomas Carlyle

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