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The Sentimentality Of Baseball Is Very Deeply Rooted In The American Baseball Fan. It Is The One Sport That Is Transmitted From Fathers To Sons.

Time And Space Are Absolute. Diseases Are Evil Spirits That Inhabit The Body. Parallel Lines Never Meet. The Earth Is The Center Of The Universe. Children Are Miniature Adults. At One Time In History Each Of These Beliefs Was Generally Held To Be True. Each, However, Gave Way To Different Ideas And Even Different World Views.

A Credit Default Swap Was Confusing Mainly Because It Wasn't Really A Swap At All. It Was An Insurance Policy, Typically On A Corporate Bond, With Semiannual Premium Payments And A Fixed Term.

Each Firm Held Its Rope; One By One, They Realized That No Matter How Strongly They Pulled, The Balloon Would Eventually Lift Them Off Their Feet.

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.