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• 21 Lessons for the 21st Century

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• A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government

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• A lot of people wait for the perfect conditions to start. But don't realize that starting is the perfect condition.

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• A Sneak Peek into Bitcoin Amsterdam

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• A sundial has the fewest moving parts of any device used to track time. Which device has the most moving parts?

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• Abundance and money scarcity everywhere else. Scarcity of money abundance everywhere else

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• Abundance in money = scarcity everywhere else

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• adam grant high expectations

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• African Proverb

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• age mind over matter

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• Albert Camus

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• Albert Einstein on Theory and Practice

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• Albert Szent-Gyorgy

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• Alexander Smith

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• Alexis de Tocqueville

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• Alexis de Tocqueville

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• Alfred Hitchkock

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• Ambrose Bierce

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• America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal

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• An old Cherokee

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• Anonymous

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• Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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• Any great power that's spending more on debt service than on defense is probably not going to be great for much longer.

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• Appearances can deceive the keenest mind

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• arguments certainties and probabilities solutions and tradeoffs

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• Aristotle

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• Aristotle

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• Art Spiegelman

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• Arthur C. Clarke

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• Barack Obama

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• Before you criticize a man

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• Before you speak, ask yourself; 1) is it true?, 2) is it necessary?, 3) is kind?

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• Benjamin Franklin

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• Bill Casebeer

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• blatant and deadly example of the intervention-based incentives of our medical system

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• Bobby Henderson

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• bravery and motivation

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• Calvin Trillin

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• camus the plague and shakespear king learthinly disguised allegory of human nature

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• capital development of a country becomes a by-product of the activities of a casino

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• capitalism without bankruptcy is like Christianity without hell

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• Carl Rossby

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• Cash is trash

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• Chapman Cohen, author and lecturer (1868-1954)

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• cheating the laboring classes of mankind

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• China is the best for the most. The Internet is the most for the best.

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• Christa McAuliffe

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• Clarissa Pinkola Estes

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• Control the money of a nation and I care not who makes its laws

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• Currencies are used as a medium of exchange

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• Dan Kennedy

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• democracy and the decline

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• disappointment

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• Discomfort is the price of admission to a meaningful life

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• diverse professional backgrounds

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• Donald E. Knuth

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• Don't eat with people you wouldn't starve with

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• Don't let perfect be the enemy of good

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• Doug Bradbury

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• Ed Saunders

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• Edmund Burke

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• Edward O. Wilson

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• Edward O. Wilson

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• Effectively the definition of liquidity is net assets dividend by their duration.‍

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• Eliud Kipchoge-three-priorities

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• Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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• Envoy

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• Epictetus on Freedom

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• Epictetus on Wealth

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• Epictetus

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• Epicurus

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• Euripides

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• Every Communist must grasp the truth, Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.

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• Everyone is jealous of what you've got, no one is jealous of how you got it.

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• existance and opinions

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• Expert Problem Solving

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• Fall and Change

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• fertilize the rich man’s field with the sweat of the poor man’s brow

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• First act and then think

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• Frank Lloyd Wright

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• Friedrich Nietzsche

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• Gautama Buddha

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• George Orwell

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• George Washington on Fiat Money

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• Gillian Tett

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• Give me control over a nation’s currency, and I care not who makes its laws

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• Go all the way. Otherwise, don’t even start.

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• Goethe

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• Greg LeMond

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• grittiness

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• Guns, Knives, Money, Law, Power and Rules

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• György Pólya

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• Happiness Equals Reality Minus Expectations

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• Hard times create strong men

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• Henry David Thoreau

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• Henry David Thoreau

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• Henry Ford

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• How much accuracy is lost when the method replaces the judge

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• Howard

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• human capacity for deliberate malice and compassion

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• Hunter S. Thompson

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• I can fly but have no wings. I can cry but I have no eyes. Wherever I go, darkness follows me. What am I?

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• I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.

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• I will not judge a man by his lambskin papakha and painted nails

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• I would rather have questions that can't be answered than answers that can't be questioned.

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• Iain Thomas

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• If something cannot go on forever, it will stop.

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• If you see ten troubles coming down the road, you can be sure that nine will run into the ditch before they reach you.

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• I’m more worried about the dangers of natural stupidity than AI

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• impossibility of a solution to certain problems plays an important role

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• In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act

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• in matters of war always control never be controlled

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• in the case of the laws of nature being suspended you have to ask yourself have they been suspended in my favor am i possibly under misapprehension

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• In war, truth is the first casualty.

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• incredulity at the illiteracy of scientists

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• Inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon

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• Isaac Asimov

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• It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.

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• It is often easier to ask for forgiveness than to ask for permission.

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• It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal.

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• J.R.R. Tolkien

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• James Baldwin

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• Jason Fried & David Heinemeier Hansson

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• Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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• Jocko Willink

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• Jocko Willink

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• John Maynard Keynes

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• John Maynard Keynes

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• John Maynard Keynes

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• Josh Billings, 19th c. humorist

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• Ki no Tsurayuki

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• Lao Zi - Watch your thoughts

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• Latin proverb

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• Laurence Sterne

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• Lawrence Lessig

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• Lawrence Lessig

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• Lawrence Lessig

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• Leonardo da Vinci on seeing

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• Leonardo da Vinci

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• Liu Xun

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• Loren Eiseley

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• Lucius Annaeus Seneca, philosopher (BCE 3-65 CE)

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• Lucretius

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• Manage things. Lead people.

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• Marcus Aurelius

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• Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sévigné

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• Marino Sichi

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• Mark Labberton, President

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• Mark Twain

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• Market Interest Rate vs. Central Bank Policy Rates

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• Mary Anne Radmacher

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• Mary Gates (mother of Bill Gates)

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• Matsuo Bashô

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• Mental Meandering

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• Michael Jordan

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• Michael Jordan

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• Michael Pollan

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• Michel de Montaigne

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• Michel de Montaigne

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• mistake speaking without thought for speaking the truth

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• mlk all too many others have been more cautious than courageous

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• Money is an asset that exists in the absence of liability.

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• Money is the most universal and most efficient system of mutual trust ever devised.

  — Yuval Noah Harari Details →

• Morgan Housel Tail Events

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• Murasaki Shikibu

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• Murasaki Shikibu

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• Nathaniel Hawthorne

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• Nations are invisible lines that people assign meaning to.‍

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• Nobody Ever Complied Their Way Out Of Totalitarianism

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• nothing is to be feared, it is only understood

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• Omar Khayyám

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• One accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions.

  — Grace Hopper Details →

• One of the great mistakes is to judge policies and programs by their intentions rather than their results.

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• other people's opinions

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• Over Estimate and Under Estimate

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• Pablo Neruda

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• Paul Graham on Bitcoin

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• Perseverate

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• Pessimists ‘tend to be right’ but optimists ‘tend to succeed’ and ‘get the most done’

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• Plans Are Worthless

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• Plutarch

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• Politicians Are Like Diapers

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• Politics is War By Other Means

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• Power Persuasion Possessions Connections contribution challenges

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• Prices fall to the marginal cost of production.

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• Private Banks Thomas Jefferson

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• psychopaths distill into positions of power in bureaucracies

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• quitting is easy

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• Rabindranath Tagore

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• Rabindranath Tagore

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• Rabindranath Tagore

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• Rabindranath Tagore

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• Rabindranath Tagore

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• Rabindranath Tagore

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• Rabindranath Tagore

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• Rabindranath Tagore

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• Rabindranath Tagore

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• Rabindranath Tagore

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• Rabindranath Tagore

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• Rabindranath Tagore

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• Ralph Waldo Emerson

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• Ralph Waldo Emerson

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• Ralph Waldo Emerson

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• Remember, when you are dead, you do not know you are dead. It is only painful for others. The same applies when you are stupid.

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• reorgs are like ice cream

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• Retirement

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• Rich Karlgaard

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• Rich Karlgaard

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• Richard Branson

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• Richard Dawkins

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• Roald Amundsen

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• Robert Cialdini I know if the situation were ever reversed, you do the same for me

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• Robert Strauss

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• Rumi

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• Running from your fear is more painful than facing it.

  — Chuck Norris Details →

• Russell Conjugation by Balaji

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• Russell conjugation

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• Saint Augustine

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• Samuel Johnson

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• Secret of change

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• See Hear Think Perceive

  — Patrick Olivelle Details →

• Serapionic principle: a work succeeds when the author vividly believes in and inwardly inhabits the imagined world, regardless of its outward realism.

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• Sheena Iyengar

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• Six mistakes mankind keeps making century after century

  — Marcus Tullius Cicero Details →

• sixteen hundred banks failed between 1980 and 1994

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• Steve Forbes, publisher of Forbes magazine

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• Steve Jobs

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• Steve Jobs

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• stock-market-guarantee

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• Stocks, Bonds, & Real Estate are all fiat instruments that derive their value

  — Michael Saylor Details →

• Strategic Delay Diversified Outcomes Calculated Risk Hope

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• Surveillance is the license given to the people who are on the top of that, to control our lives

  — Andreas Antonopoulos Details →

• T.S. Eliot

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• Tamassoma Gyotirgamaya

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• tax it, borrow it, or print it

  — Lance Edelman Details →

• The analogy with handwashing is intentional

  — Daniel Kahneman, Olivier Sibony & Cass Sunstein (Noise - A Flaw in Human Judgment) Details →

• The biggest issue that is not priced into the market right now is the sovereign risk of US credit

  — Ken Griffin Details →

• The biggest mistake we make in life

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• The city has lost its utility.

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• The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying

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• The Intelligent Investor - Chapter 8 and 20

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• The magic you are looking for is in the work you're avoiding

  — Chris Williamson and Dipen Parmar Details →

• The only way to get someone to do something is love money or force.

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• The perks of being a wallflower

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• The Persian Letters of Montesquieu

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• The Pessimists Fled and the Optimists Stayed Behind

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• The real difference between democracy and oligarchy is between poverty and wealth.

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• The real problem of humanity

  — Edward O. Wilson Details →

• The state is the great fiction through which everyone endeavors to live at the expense of everyone else.

  — Frédéric Bastiat Details →

• The Use of Knowledge in Society

  — Friedrich A. Hayek Details →

• The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation

  — Vladimir Lenin Details →

• The worship of the state is the worship of force

  — Ludwig von Mises Details →

• There are two ways to conquer and enslave a nation. One is by the sword. The other is by debt.

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• Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.

  — Benjamin Franklin Details →

• thoughts and being

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• threats-sudden-slow

  — Kenneth Cukier, Viktor Mayer-Schönberger & Francis de Véricourt Details →

• Three things cannot be long hidden

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• Three things ruin people: drugs, liquor, and leverage.

  — Charlie Munger Details →

• To enjoy the dumpling you must know how it was folded.

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• Tom Bradley

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• Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be

  — Ralph Waldo Emerson Details →

• Turkish Muslim fundamentalist old-earth creationist Harun Yahya (Adnan Oktar)

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• turned society into a big Skinner box and controlled behavior deliberately

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• understand major economic events through a narrow lens

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• US Congress Person

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• Viktor Frankl

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• Voltaire

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• Vox Clamantis in Deserto

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• W brian Arthur The Native Technology and how it evolves increasing returns economics

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• W. Brian Arthur's work on path dependence and lock-in

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• W. Somerset Maugham

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• Walker Percy

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• Wars Taxes Criminals

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• Watch your thoughts

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• we are not fully equipped by our senses for forming an impersonal picture of the world

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• What china did to red America the internet is doing to blue America.‍

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• When it becomes serious, you have to lie.

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• When the house is finished, death follows

  — Thomas Mann Details →

• When you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing

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• whenever we were about to get very rich, something happened to make us poor

  — Ron Chernow Details →

• Why Are Young People Pretending to Love Work?

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• William Gibson

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• William Shakespeare

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• Winners

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• Winston Churchill

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• Winstone Churchill on Success

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• Woody Allen

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• Yes and" not "Yes but

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• You get what you get

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• You have to gather data with your eyes.

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• you live longer only when you stop trying to live longer

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• you should not believe a thing only because you like to believe it

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