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- I want to live happily in a world I don’t understand.
- When we want to do something while unconsciously certain to fail, we seek advice so we can blame someone else for the failure.
- I want them poor and they deserve to be poor. You can't have capitalism without punishment.
- We should probably stop trading derivatives, anything more complex than regular options ... I am an options trader, and I don't understand options. How do…
- People focus on role models; it is more effective to find antimodels - people you don't want to resemble when you grow up
- If you want to annoy a poet, explain his poetry.
- I select a very small number of things to be sceptical about, such as markets, and on these I am hypersceptic. But I want to…
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