Bruce Kovner Quotes

Fundamentalists who say they are not going to pay any attention to the charts are like a doctor who says he's not going to take a patient's temperature.

Bruce Kovner

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• Fundamentalists who say they are not going to pay any attention to the charts are like a doctor who says he's not going to take a patient's temperature.

  

  Bruce Kovner
  • Attention
  • Pay
  • Patient