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It is, in both cases, that a spiritual life has been imparted to nature; that the solid seeming block of matter has been pervadedand dissolved by a thought; that this feeble human being has penetrated the vast masses of nature with an informing soul, and recognised itself in their harmony, that is, seized their law. In physics, when this is attained, the memory disburthens itself of its cumbrous catalogues of particulars, and carries centuries of observation in a single formula.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The stock market resembles a huge laundry in which institutions take in large blocks of each others washing ... without rhyme or reason.
— Benjamin Graham
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