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With what impatience does the man of spirit and ambition, who is depressed by his situation, look round for some great opportunity to distinguish himself? No circumstances, which can afford this, appear to him undesirable. He even looks forward with satisfaction to the prospect of foreign war, or civil dissension; and, with secret transport and delight, sees through all the confusion and bloodshed which attend them, the probability of those wished-for occasions presenting themselves, in which he may draw upon himself the attention and admiration of mankind. From Adam Smith, The Theory of Moral Sentiments, I.III.20 And:Foreign war and civil faction are the two situations which afford the most splendid
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David Henderson considers the following as important: Behavioral Economics and Rationality
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With what impatience does the man of spirit and ambition, who is depressed by his situation, look round for some great opportunity to distinguish himself? No circumstances, which can afford this, appear to him undesirable. He even looks forward with satisfaction to the prospect of foreign war, or civil dissension; and, with secret transport and delight, sees through all the confusion and bloodshed which attend them, the probability of those wished-for occasions presenting themselves, in which he may draw upon himself the attention and admiration of mankind. From Adam Smith, The Theory of Moral Sentiments, I.III.20 And:Foreign war and civil faction are the two situations which afford the most splendid
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David Henderson considers the following as important: Behavioral Economics and Rationality
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