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“When you see reference to a new paradigm you should always, under all circumstances, take cover. Because ever since the great tulipmania in 1637, speculation has always been covered by a new paradigm. There was never a paradigm so new and so wonderful as the one that covered John Law and the South Sea Bubble - until the day of disaster.”

Should Law Wonderful Sea Circumstances South Disaster Covered Bubbles Speculation Paradigm

Author:John Kenneth Galbraith

“Religion supposed Heaven and Hell, the word of God, and sacraments, and twenty other circumstances which, taken seriously, are a wonderful check to wit and humour.”

Heaven Hell Taken Wonderful Atheism Humour Circumstances Twenties Positive Atheism Wit Checks Word Of God Sacraments Heaven And Hell

Book:The Works of Jonathan Swift: Miscellaneous essays

Source: The Works of Jonathan Swift: Miscellaneous essays

“It may be worth noticing as a curious circumstance, when persons past forty before they were at all acquainted form together a very close intimacy of friendship. For grafts of old wood to take, there must be a wonderful congeniality between the trees.”

May Persons Together Past Form Friendship Wonderful Tree Circumstances Woods Curious Intimacy Forty Noticing Congeniality Old Wood

Book:The Essays ... Revised ... by Thomas Markby ... Second Edition

Source: The Essays ... Revised ... by Thomas Markby ... Second Edition

“A circumstance which has always appeared wonderful to me, is that such sublime discoveries should have been made by the sole assistance of a quadrant and a little arithmetic.”

Should Littles Has Beens Made Science Wonderful Circumstances Discovery Should Have Sole Sublime Assistance Should Have Been Arithmetic

Book:Delphi Collected Works of Voltaire (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Collected Works of Voltaire (Illustrated)