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Some people choose to dwell on the disadvantage. Others put their efforts into more productive means.
“The barrel of a pistol is for me at the moment a source of relatively agreeable thoughts.”
― The Portable Nietzsche
― The Portable Nietzsche
“The correct way to think about an extended warranty is: What’s my probability of a total loss? Multiply that by the total cost.”
― Winning With Money
― Winning With Money
“hire a former enemy and he will be more loyal than a friend, because he has more to prove. In fact, you have more to fear from friends than from enemies. If you have no enemies, find a way to make them.”
― The 48 Laws of Power
― The 48 Laws of Power
“Michael Berry wrote a paper called Regular and Irregular Motion. He determined the predictability of the path of a struck billiards ball. The path after the first impact is easy to determine with basic geometry. The second path is a bit harder, but still relatively easy. By the 9th impact Berry determined that the gravitational pull of a person standing next to the table had enough of an influence on the ball path that it was necessary to be included in the calculations.”
― Winning With Money
― Winning With Money
“Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art; it arises in hypothesis and flows into achievement. Philosophy is a hypothetical interpretation of the unknown (as in metaphysics), or of the inexactly known (as in ethics or political philosophy); it is the front trench in the siege of truth. Science is the captured territory; and behind it are those secure regions in which knowledge and art build our imperfect and marvelous world. Philosophy seems to stand still, perplexed; but only because she leaves the fruits of victory to her daughters the sciences, and herself passes on, divinely discontent, to the uncertain and unexplored.”
― The Story of Philosophy
― The Story of Philosophy
Dmitry’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at Dmitry’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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