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A simple heuristic that I learned from Nassim TALEB; don’t ask people what you should invest in, ask them… What did you invest in?  For example, I recently swapped a bunch of my bitcoin for chainlink. Why did I do it? My thoughts:  What is chainlink? Essentially it is a platform built upon…

Why I Bought Chainlink A simple heuristic that I learned from Nassim TALEB; don’t ask people what you should invest in, ask them… What did you invest in?  For example, I recently swapped a bunch of my bitcoin for chainlink. Why did I do it? My thoughts:  What is chainlink? Essentially it is…

Baudrillard-on nihilism by Baudrillard:   ON NIHILISM Nihilism no longer wears the dark, Wagnerian, Spenglerian, fuliginous colors of the end of the century. It no longer comes from a Weltanschauung of decadence nor from a metaphysical radicality born of the death of God and of all the consequences that must be taken from this death.…

George Washington I hold the maxim no less applicable to public than to private affairs, that honesty is always the best policy. George Washington (22 February 1732 – 14 December1799) was the successful Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army in the American Revolutionary Warfrom 1775 to 1783, and later became the first President of the United…

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_F._Kennedy John F. Kennedy John Fitzgerald Kennedy (29 May 1917 – 22 November 1963) was the 35th President of the United States, a brother of Robert F. Kennedy and Ted Kennedy, and the first husband of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. Quotes NATIVE KNOWS POS’IT…HE CAN PILOT… In a democracy, every citizen, regardless of his interest in…

Front Cover.jpg ‘Climb with me the steep…..’ Keats, sonnet ‘O Solitude!’ line 3. The Divine Comedy Dante bust.jpg DANTE ALIGHIERI A Translation into English Prose by A. S. KLINE Published in Entirety with Index, Notes & Illustrations by GUSTAVE DORÉ POETRY IN TRANSLATION www.poetryintranslation.com © Copyright 2000 A. S. Kline Cover design by Poetry in…

Fountain head Victor Hugo: If a writer wrote merely for his time, I would have to break my pen and throw it away. dojnt live; think, or write on the range of the moment. dont let things fade rapidly like magazines. longevity is the place of romanticism. Romanticism: conceptual school of art. not with random…

http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/atlasshrugged/section10.rhtml Atlas Shrugged there was nothing he wished or needed to buy any goods; made by men to be used by men. enjoy the sight of prosperous street. tree as symbol of strength reach for the best within us. discover what is the best within us. don’t know what people think; we can just see…

Provided by The Internet Classics Archive. See bottom for copyright. Available online at http://classics.mit.edu//Thucydides/pelopwar.html The History of the Peloponnesian War By Thucydides Translated by Richard Crawley THE FIRST BOOK Chapter I The State of Greece from the earliest Times to the Commencement of the Peloponnesian War Thucydides, an Athenian, wrote the history of the war…

THINK AND GROW RICH by Napoleon Hill NAPOLEON HILL THINK AND GROW RICH TABLE OF CONTENTS Author’s Preface p. 3 Chapter 1 — Introduction p. 9 Chapter 2 — Desire: The Turning Point of All Achievement p. 22 Chapters — Faith Visualization of, and Belief in Attainment of Desire p. 40 Chapter 4 — Auto-Suggestion…

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: — Letter from His Excellency, Privy Councilor von Goethe Honored Sir, In sending back the pleasing pictures, I also enclose the essay. The two are most perfectly related; they reveal a tender and sensitive mind that is truly and solidly grounded within itself. Lovers of art here have made constant pilgrim-…

stoics.com Seneca Epistles Book 2 Seneca’s Epistles Volume II Source: Lucius Annaeus Seneca. Moral Epistles. Translated by Richard M. Gummere. The Loeb Classical Library. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard UP, 1917-25. 3 vols.: Volume II. Before using any portion of this text in any theme, essay, research paper, thesis, or dissertation, please read the disclaimer. Transcription conventions:…

Title: Nineteen eighty-four Author: George Orwell (pseudonym of Eric Blair) (1903-1950) PART ONE Chapter 1 It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. Winston Smith, his chin nuzzled into his breast in an effort to escape the vile wind, slipped quickly through the glass doors of Victory Mansions, though…