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You are a practitioner of Whig history, a naive optimist, a Pollyanna and, of course, a Pangloss, alluding to the Voltaire character who declared, "All is for the best in the best of all possible worlds."

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It is naive beyond description to think that having blocked this source of financial collapse, you have blocked all possible sources of financial collapse.

Now Ken and I are not naive, and we understand that you need to have rules.

And yes, on a scale from one to over-trusting, I am pretty damn naive.

In his great novel, "The Brothers Karamazov," Dostoevsky gives these words to Ivan, addressed to his naive and devout younger brother, Alyosha: "If the sufferings of children go to make up the sum of sufferings which is necessary for the purchase of truth, then I say beforehand that the entire truth is not worth such a price.

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