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The Fuses Had Been Lit And Could Not Be Extinguished. All That Remained Was To Observe The Speed Of The Spark, And The Size Of The Explosions.

A Tourist Can't Help But Have A Distorted Opinion Of A Place: He Meets Unrepresentative People, Has Unrepresentative Experiences, And Runs Around Imposing Upon The Place The Fantastic Mental Pictures He Had In His Head When He Got There.

A Banking System Is An Act Of Faith: It Survives Only For As Long As People Believe It Will.

You Could Argue The Banks Are Much Better Capitalised Than They Were Going Into The Crisis, And Everyone's In A Much More Vigilant State Because They Still Remember The Crisis.

People Don't Like Uncertainty, And Their Minds Are Tools For Making Sense Of The World, Even When The World Is Senseless.