~ Galileo Galilei
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The modern mind is overstimulated and the modern body is under stimulated and overfed. Meditation, exercise, and fasting restore an ancient balance.
~ @naval
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~ Richard Feynman
~ @ScottAdamsSays
~ Lao Tzu
~ Confucius
Do not seek pleasure for its own sake.
Do not, under any circumstances, depend on a partial feeling.
Think lightly of yourself and deeply of the world.
~ Miyamoto Musashi
~ Plato
It's hard to be angry with the world when you're not angry with yourself.
~ The Stoic Empire
~ Christopher Columbus
~ Mark Twain
~ Chinese Proverb
~ @naval
~ Charlie Munger
~ Benjamin Franklin
~ @nntaleb
~ Henry Ford
~ Aristotle
If you've mastered the skill, you won't be hurt by failure.
If you're wise, you won't be upset by the truth.
~ The Stoic Empire
~ Epictetus
~ Marcus Aurelius
If you are anxious you are living in the future.
If you are at peace you are living in the present.
~ Lao Tzu
~ Margaret Mead
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It doesn't happen because you want it to happen.
It doesn't happen because you made it happen.
It happens because you allow it to happen.
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It doesn't happen because you made it happen.
It happens because you allow it to happen.
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There is a fine line between persistence and stubbornness.
— The Irrational Investor (@position_trader) August 28, 2019
True for life, true for investing.
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His arrogance and ambition prohibit any allegiance to morality or character.
Thus far, his plan to seize the presidency has fallen into place.
An explanation in photographs.
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Joshua grew up in the next town over from mine, in Lexington, Missouri. A a teenager he wrote a column for the local paper, where he perfected his political condescension.
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By the time he reached high-school, however, he attended an elite private high-school 60 miles away in Kansas City.
This is a piece of his history he works to erase as he builds up his counterfeit image as a rural farm boy from a small town who grew up farming.
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After graduating from Rockhurst High School, he attended Stanford University where he wrote for the Stanford Review--a libertarian publication founded by Peter Thiel..
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(Full Link: https://t.co/zixs1HazLk)
Hawley's writing during his early 20s reveals that he wished for the curriculum at Stanford and other "liberal institutions" to change and to incorporate more conservative moral values.
This led him to create the "Freedom Forum."
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His arrogance and ambition prohibit any allegiance to morality or character.
Thus far, his plan to seize the presidency has fallen into place.
An explanation in photographs.
🧵
Joshua grew up in the next town over from mine, in Lexington, Missouri. A a teenager he wrote a column for the local paper, where he perfected his political condescension.
2/

By the time he reached high-school, however, he attended an elite private high-school 60 miles away in Kansas City.
This is a piece of his history he works to erase as he builds up his counterfeit image as a rural farm boy from a small town who grew up farming.
3/

After graduating from Rockhurst High School, he attended Stanford University where he wrote for the Stanford Review--a libertarian publication founded by Peter Thiel..
4/
(Full Link: https://t.co/zixs1HazLk)

Hawley's writing during his early 20s reveals that he wished for the curriculum at Stanford and other "liberal institutions" to change and to incorporate more conservative moral values.
This led him to create the "Freedom Forum."
5/
