We also reject the idea that people have an enforceable claim on others for anything more than being left alone.
“And this is the Witch Doctor’s epistemological ideal, the mode of consciousness he strives to induce in himself. To the Witch Doctor, emotions are tools of cognition, and wishes take precedence over facts. He seeks to escape the risks of a quest for knowledge by obliterating the distinction between consciousness and reality, between the perceiver and the perceived, hoping that an automatic certainty and an infallible knowledge of the universe will be granted to him by the blind, unfocused stare of his eyes turned inward,”
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“The schoolteacher asks Billy Bob: "If you have 12 sheeps and one jumps over the fence, how many sheeps do you have left?"
Billy Bob answers, "None."
"Well" says the teacher, "you sure don't know your subtraction."
"Maybe not," Billy Bob replies, "but i darn sure know my sheeps.”
― The Intelligent Investor
Billy Bob answers, "None."
"Well" says the teacher, "you sure don't know your subtraction."
"Maybe not," Billy Bob replies, "but i darn sure know my sheeps.”
― The Intelligent Investor
“You will be much more in control, if you realize how much you are not in control.”
― The Intelligent Investor
― The Intelligent Investor
“The intelligent investor is a realist who sells to optimists and buys from pessimists.”
― The Intelligent Investor
― The Intelligent Investor
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