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Patrick is Currently Reading

Patrick Peterson is currently reading

Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion

by Robert B. Cialdini (Goodreads Author)

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Dec 18, 2025 02:08AM

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Free Versus Regulated Banking: Three Centuries of Crisis and Stability in Great Britain and North America (for the general reader)

by Christopher Silber

bookshelves: currently-reading, austrian-economics, business, economics, entrepreneurship, history, law-legal-crime, libertarian, personal-finance, political

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Patrick Peterson said: " 2023-10-13 Just bought this and am greatly looking forward to reading.
I have known the author for quite a few years and seen several presentations of his on the topic of this book. Those presentations were very solid and a book length treatment seems ...more "

Oct 13, 2023 02:25PM · see review

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The Individualists: Radicals, Reactionaries, and the Struggle for the Soul of Libertarianism

by Matt Zwolinski (Goodreads Author)

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Patrick Peterson said: " 2023-07-07 Started reading this a few days ago after seeing at least two significant reviews that seemed to get important parts of the story wrong. I am "friends" with both authors (on various social media), have met one in person and have significan ...more "

Oct 11, 2023 10:02AM · see review

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Patrick’s Notes & Highlights

Book cover for The Game of Life and How to Play It

The Game of Life and How to Play It by Florence Scovel Shinn

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No man can attract money if he despises it. Many people are kept in poverty by saying: "Money means nothing to me, and I have a contempt for people who have it." This is the reason so many artists are poor.

True. Amazing, considering all the other anti-reality quotations.

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Patrick’s Quotes

“A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.”
― Steve Martin

tags: humor, obvious, simile

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“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).”
― Mark Twain

tags: individuality, majority, minority, pause, reflect, wisdom

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“On matters of style, swim with the current, on matters of principle, stand like a rock.”
― Thomas Jefferson

tags: principle, style

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“I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

tags: bene-gesserit, fear, litany-against-fear, motivational, scifi

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