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For most of my life, one of the persons most baffled by my own work was myself.

For most of my life, one of the persons most baffled by my own work was myself.

Benoit Mandelbrot's lecture at the University of Maryland, March 2005.

If a person can build a fence around himself, he is bound to do it.

Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn (1973). “The First Circle”

The most destitute person in the world is the one without a smile.

Zig Ziglar (2010). “See You at the Top”, p.84, Pelican Publishing

I'm not a time person. A watch is not good for me.

"Q&A: True Detective's Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson, the Laurel and Hardy of Existential Despair". Interview with John Lopez, m.espn.go.com. January 8, 2014.

No one can build his security upon the nobleness of another person.

Willa Cather (2013). “The Essential Willa Cather Collection”, p.57, eBookIt.com

A prediction about the direction of the stock market tells you nothing about where stocks are headed, but a whole lot about the person doing the predicting.

"Financial Experts Could Be Hazardous to Your Wealth" by Dr. Robert R. Johnson, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 6, 2017.

For a person who lives 100 years in the future, the present comes as no surprise.

Viktor Schauberger, Callum Coats (1999). “The Water Wizard – The Extraordinary Properties of Natural Water: Volume 1 of Renowned Environmentalist Viktor Schauberger’s Eco-Technology Series”, p.11, Gill & Macmillan Ltd

But as I always say to people I'm essentially a public service person.

Interview with Martin Kettle, www.theguardian.com. September 1, 2010.

The worst experience can bring out a person's deepest strength.

Susan Campbell Bartoletti (2017). “The Boy Who Dared”, p.134, Scholastic Inc.