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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Vess1, post: 716545, member: 13650&quot;]I believe cynical people are the most well informed.&nbsp; Some are in between.&nbsp; For the rest, ignorance is bliss.</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp; You&#039;re worried about becoming too cynical because of your experiences with coins??&nbsp; Well, welcome to the real world!&nbsp;&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The people/dealers who are looking to take advantage of you and rip you off are mixed in with the good ones!!&nbsp; And they don&#039;t wear a sign on their forehead or give you a warning in their ebay listing.&nbsp;&nbsp; The fakes are mixed with the authentic.&nbsp; The mis-graded are mixed with the properly graded.</p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; If you aren&#039;t willing to be honest with yourself and root them out, good luck with business.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp; I know a guy that is highly intelligent.&nbsp; Remembers stuff from college that I couldn&#039;t dream of remembering.&nbsp;&nbsp; He is the most cynical person I know.&nbsp; He is very tight with money, but is also one of the wealthiest people I know.&nbsp; But would never act like it.</p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; I used to find it annoying.&nbsp; I often wondered why is he this way?&nbsp; One day it dawned on me that his years of experience made him this way.&nbsp; &nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; Almost everybody is trying to rob you, nickel and dime you and take advantage of you in any little way they can so THEY can get ahead.&nbsp; They don&#039;t care about you!&nbsp; Insurance companies, banks, salesmen, businesses, government and on and on.&nbsp;&nbsp; He has been formed into this. </p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; Good or bad, he&#039;s had a tough life but is highly successful and enjoys life in his free time.&nbsp;&nbsp; He knows more about more subjects than anybody I know.&nbsp;&nbsp; If I ask him a question he has long, well thought out answers that are helpful and truthful.&nbsp; He doesn&#039;t sugar coat things.&nbsp; Has far less of a sense of humor than me.&nbsp; &nbsp; He is a realist.&nbsp; It works for him.&nbsp;&nbsp; For others, I suppose that would be too much to come to grips with.&nbsp;&nbsp; Even if that means simply grading a coin properly.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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