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• In health of mind and body, men should see with their own eyes, hear and speak without trumpets, walk on their feet, not on wheels, and work and war with their arms, not with engine-beams, nor rifles warranted to kill twenty men at a shot before you can see them.

  ― John Ruskin
  English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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• People want to see patterns in the world. It is how we evolved. We descended from those primates who were best at spotting the telltale pattern of a predator in the forest, or of food in the savannah. So important is this skill that we apply it everywhere, warranted or not.

  Source: The (Mis)Behavior of Markets Ch. 12, p. 245

  ― Benoit Mandelbrot
  Polish-born French and American mathematician and polymath (1924 - 2010)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• engine-beams
• everywhere
• descended
• important
• spotting
• telltale

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