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• You don't become completely free by just avoiding being a slave; you also need to avoid becoming a master.
• I suspect the I.Q., SAT, and school grades are tests designed by nerds so they can get high scores in order to…
• I no longer care about the financial system. I gave them my roadmap. OK? Thanks, bye. I've no idea what's going on.…
• Work hard, not in grunt work, but in chasing such opportunities and maximizing exposure to them. This makes living in big cities…
• Many people keep deploring the low level of formal education in the United states (as defined by, say, math grades). Yet these…
• Never ask anyone for their opinion, forecast, or recommendation. Just ask them what they have—or don’t have—in their portfolio.
• An erudite is someone who displays less than he knows; a journalist or consultant the opposite.
• An idea starts to be interesting when you get scared of taking it to its logical conclusion.

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