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I once read a description of risk like so: slowly at first; then, suddenly. If you thought things were bad, it's only going to get worse at an increasing rate.

• pmg102 4y ago
  “How did you go bankrupt?” Bill asked. “Two ways,” Mike said. “Gradually and then suddenly.” The dialogue above is from Ernest Hemingway’s 1926 novel, The Sun Also Rises.
  • aintmeit 4y ago
    Exactly. The sun also rises.