"The moment of recognizing your own lack of talent is a flash of genius."

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“Thoughts, like fleas, jump from man to man, but they don't bite everybody.”

“Do not trust people. They are capable of greatness.”

“It is the high priests that make demands — not the gods they serve.”

“Hay smells different to lovers and horses.”

“Morality is either a social contract or you have to pay cash.”

“The Order of the Garter usually goes to people who already have full wardrobes.”

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Literature1944

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"If I had been censured every time I have run my ship, or fleets under my command, into great danger, I should have long ago been out of the Service and never in the House of Peers."

— Horatio Nelson

Military1758–1805

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"Read nothing from the past one hundred years; eat no fruits from the past one thousand years; drink nothing from the past four thousand years ; but talk to no ordinary man over forty."

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Mathematics1960

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"The rub here is that buying when prices are low is always a very scary proposition. The low prices that produce high future returns are not possible without catastrophe and risk."

— William J. Bernstein

Business1948

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