“A complacent satisfaction with present knowledge is the chief bar to the pursuit of knowledge.”
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Loss of hope rather than loss of life is what decides the issues of war. But helplessness induces hopelessness.
Helplessness induces hopelessness, and history attests that loss of hope and not loss of lives is what decides the issue of war.
This crisis exposed very significant problems in the financial systems of the United States and some other major economies. Innovation got too far out in front of the knowledge of risk.
It is impossible to make people understand their ignorance, for it requires knowledge to perceive it and, therefore, he that can perceive it hath it not.