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Nassim Nicholas Taleb Author, Statistician
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"Is the economy something organic or is it something engineered? I think it's closer to the organic. You harm it by artificially suppressing volatility in it."

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Marcus Aurelius Philosopher, Emperor
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"Take away your opinion, and then there is taken away the complaint, 'I have been harmed.' Take away the complaint, 'I have been harmed,' and the harm is taken away."

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Leo Tolstoy Novelist, Philosopher
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"I don't want to prove anything; I merely want to live, to do no one harm but myself. I have the right to do that, haven't I?"

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Carl Jung Psychiatrist, Psychoanalyst
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"Criticism can be effective when there is something that must be destroyed or dissolved, but it is capable only of harm when there is something to be built."

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Dalai Lama Spiritual Leader
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"Peace has a great deal to do with warm-heartednes s and respect for the lives of others, avoiding doing them harm and regarding their lives as being as precious as our own. If, on that basis, we can also be of help to others, so much the better."

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Samuel Johnson Lexicographer, Essayist, Critic
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"The mind is seldom quickened to very vigorous operations but by pain, or the dread of pain. We do not disturb ourselves with the detection of fallacies which do us no harm."

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