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• Strictly speaking, there is but one real evil: I mean acute pain. All other complaints are so considerably diminished by time that it is plain the grief is owing to our passion, since the sensation of it vanishes when that is over.

  ― Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
  English writer (1689 - 1762)
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• The human race's prospects of survival were considerably better when we were defenceless against tigers than they are today when we have become defenceless against ourselves.

  ― Arnold J. Toynbee
  British historian and author (1889 - 1975)
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• The utility, or intrinsic value of gold as a commodity is now considerably less than in the past; its monetary status has become extraordinarily ambiguous; and sits future is highly uncertain.

  Source: Storage and Stability Part III, Ch. X, The Status of Gold and Silver, p.

  ― Benjamin Graham
  British-born American economist, professor and investor (1894 - 1976)
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• We forge gradually our greatest instrument for understanding the world - introspection. We discover that humanity may resemble us very considerably - that the best way of knowing the inwardness of our neighbors is to know ourselves.

  ― Walter Lippmann
  American writer, reporter, and political commentator (1889 - 1974)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• extraordinarily
• understanding
• introspection
• inwardness
• ourselves
• intrinsic

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