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You have to be an independent thinker in markets to be successful because the consensus is built into the price. You have to have a view that’s different from the consensus.
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“Nobody believes—even the people who believe in him somehow believe in him without believing what he says.”
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“We need to rediscover a sacred truth that neither conflicts with reason nor oppresses the individual and then to make that understanding the basis of a spiritualized politics. In other words, we need a nonsacerdotal, nonsectarian, nontheological, nontribal religious worldview that is compatible with science and that provides personal orientation, moral guidance, and a framework for public order without imposing dogmas that must be believed or priests who must be obeyed.47 The eventual outcome might be a kind of Confucianism, Taoism, or Stoicism for the postmechanical age.”
― Plato's Revenge: Politics in the Age of Ecology
― Plato's Revenge: Politics in the Age of Ecology
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“The oaten heaviness of the air, the thick-porridge density of it, the way its odor of dryness and limpness sank down among fresher scents of green and dew and lay there, immobile as a dead thing.”
― One for the Blackbird, One for the Crow
― One for the Blackbird, One for the Crow
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