William J. Bernstein (1948) economist
Source: The Four Pillars of Investing (2002), Chapter 7, Misbehavior, p. 179.
“For this was the real desert where differences of race and colour, of wealth and social standing, are almost meaningless; where coverings of pretence are stripped away and basic truths emerge.”
— Wilfred Thesiger, book Arabian Sands
Source: Arabian Sands (1959), p. 21.
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