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There's A Certain Status To Suffering In Ireland, That The Person Who - If You're Sitting Around A Table, The Person With The Greatest Status Is The Person Who Had The Most Horrible Thing Happen To Them Most Recently.

Book Tours Are Almost Designed To Beat Out Of An Author Any Affection He Has For His Book.

Incredibly, At This Critical Juncture In Financial History, After Which So Much Changed So Quickly, The Only Constraint In The Subprime Mortgage Market Was A Shortage Of People Willing To Bet Against It.

It Is Far Better To Keep The Enemy Close, By Bribing Him With Stock Options, Than To Have Him Out In The Wild, Foraging.

The Inability To Envision A Certain Kind Of Person Doing A Certain Kind Of Thing Because You've Never Seen Someone Who Looks Like Him Do It Before Is Not Just A Vice. It's A Luxury. What Begins As A Failure Of The Imagination Ends As A Market Inefficiency: When You Rule Out An Entire Class Of People From Doing A Job Simply By Their Appearance, You Are Less Likely To Find The Best Person For The Job.