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Mark Twain actually never said this.

http://mentalfloss.com/article/29372/10-things-mark-twain-didnt-really-say

It's most likely a variation of a quote from Robert Heinlein, the science fiction author,

"The whole principle is wrong; it's like demanding that grown men live on skim milk because the baby can't eat steak."

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Robert_A._Heinlein

While the anti-democratic sentiment as well as the "shadows" imagery do sound Platonic, the fact that the quote uses the word culture struck me as a bit off for 4th century Athens. I did some digging and I found that in the "Talk" section of Plato's Wikiquote article someone claims that the quote is not his. He posts a link to the "Slow readings of Plato's Dialogues" Yahoo Group where they say:

> Except for the "lies of their culture" it sounds like it could come from "Republic" and actually seems to be a summation of the Cave allegory in book 7 and or 8, but not a direct quote. The "lies of their culture" would be in reference to the deceptive shadows in the cave. "The masses" would be those people who refused to go with the philosopher out of the cave to see the sun and likely end up putting him to death. But these are inferences not quotes.

and

> I agree that "culture" and "masses" do not fit well with Plato. Google turned up thousands of instances of this particular "quote" IN FULL. None that I looked at had further attribution. Even worse "quotes" can be found on quote.net. I ran into the same problem when trying to trace down some sayings attributed to Einstein. People seem to make up anything and post it on these sites with an attribution to whomever thay think is cool. Other people read this stuff and repeat it. When challenged thay can only say, "I read it somewhere".

So it looks like this is a quotation that, while fairly in line with Plato's worldview, does not come from the man himself. This quote probably originates from someone who was summarizing Plato's ideas/position, and it eventually started getting passed along as the real thing.

There's a part in On Writing where Stephen King describes his muse as a fat, bald guy with a cigar that just stares angrily at him while he writes because it's not some beautiful moment of inspiration, that shit is work.

His book Man's Search for Meaning can only be recommended. He himself is a Holocaust survivor and describes his experiences and him trying not to loose hope as it seemed to be what differentiated those that died from those that lived.

Ronald Wright attributed it Steinbeck, but there's no reliable source on that exact quote.

However, Wikiquote says it was probably a distortion of what he actually said in some other text:

>This is perhaps an incorrect quote from Steinbeck's article "A Primer on the '30s." Esquire, June 1960: 85-93.

>"Except for the field organizers of strikes, who were pretty tough monkeys and devoted, most of the so-called Communists I met were middle-class, middle-aged people playing a game of dreams. I remember a woman in easy circumstances saying to another even more affluent: 'After the revolution even we will have more, won't we, dear?' Then there was another lover of proletarians who used to raise hell with Sunday picknickers on her property.

>"I guess the trouble was that we didn't have any self-admitted proletarians. Everyone was a temporarily embarrassed capitalist. Maybe the Communists so closely questioned by the investigation committees were a danger to America, but the ones I knew—at least they claimed to be Communists—couldn't have disrupted a Sunday-school picnic. Besides they were too busy fighting among themselves."

Emphasis mine. So he did say something pretty close to this.

Wikiquote has this to say: > "If people knew how hard I had to work to gain my mastery, it would not seem so wonderful at all."

> As quoted in Happiness Is Everything! (2000) by Chris Crawford, p. 38, and in "The Blessing of Work" (6 March 2005) by David E. Sorensen.

As an aside, the grammar of the quote from this source is an improvement on OP's version, and if people knew how how hard I had to work to understand that, it would not seem so callous to point it out.

He claimed that he never said that - it was six <em>months</em>.

> This was widely quoted, but the "six months" was changed to "six minutes," which bothered me. It's "six months."

Also, Asimov's own delivery was better:

> I was once being interviewed by Barbara Walter. In between two of the segments she asked me: "But what would you do if the doctor gave you only six months to live?" I said, "Type faster!"

Google books link to the source for Wikiquote

It's helpful to differentiate between errors and mistakes first:

>An 'error' is a deviation from accuracy or correctness. A 'mistake' is an error caused by a fault: the fault being misjudgment, carelessness, or forgetfulness. Now, say that I run a stop sign because I was in a hurry, and wasn't concentrating, and the police stop me, that is a mistake. If, however, I try to park in an area with conflicting signs, and I get a ticket because I was incorrect on my interpretation of what the signs meant, that would be an error. The first time it would be an error. The second time it would be a mistake since I should have known better.

https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Error

Here's the book they're referencing:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0054KMLIU/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&amp;btkr=1

It's discussed in the Wikipedia article on her: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coco_Chanel

Steinbeck never said that:

>This is perhaps an incorrect quote from &quot;A Primer on the '30s.&quot; Esquire, June 1960: 85-93. &quot;Except for the field organizers of strikes, who were pretty tough monkeys and devoted, most of the so-called Communists I met were middle-class, middle-aged people playing a game of dreams. I remember a woman in easy circumstances saying to another even more affluent: 'After the revolution even we will have more, won't we, dear?' Then there was another lover of proletarians who used to raise hell with Sunday picknickers on her property. &quot;I guess the trouble was that we didn't have any self-admitted proletarians. Everyone was a temporarily embarrassed capitalist. Maybe the Communists so closely questioned by the investigation committees were a danger to America, but the ones I knew—at least they claimed to be Communists—couldn't have disrupted a Sunday-school picnic. Besides they were too busy fighting among themselves.&quot;

The only time that happens is when the military allows the people to storm the established regime - almost always because the established regime didn't give the military leaders enough money. Typical people cannot, have not, and will never destroy a standing state army.

Relevant CGP Grey video for clarity, but honestly the book Dictator's Handbook is much more thorough.

Andre did not say this. According to some research I've done in like two minutes, it's a letter to him. He did not write it.

See here

Asked where he came from, he said, "I am a citizen of the world."

Diogenes Laërtius, vi. 63 (Quoting Diogenes &quot;the Cynic&quot;)

Original: >ἐρωτηθεὶς πόθεν εἴη, "κοσμοπολίτης" ἔφη

ἐρωτηθεὶς πόθεν εἴη = Asked where he came from | "κοσμοπολίτης" ἔφη = "world-citizen" [cosmos+politēs] he said

I dunno who this guy is (y'all seem to tho), but this quote reminds me a bit of something Viktor Frankl writes in Man's Search for Meaning. He writes something like, "An abnormal reaction to an abnormal situation is quite normal." Paraphrasing.

> “If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.”
-- Sun Tzu, The Art of War

We don't only read books to change ourselves, but to also become informed in general. If you turn a blind eye to those things you don't agree with, you leave yourself open to the day when it may bite you on the ass.

I believe you may be thinking of Niccolò Machiavelli, who said that if you are going to injure someone, you should injure them severly enough that you needn't fear their vengence.

What Sun Tzu called 'supreme excellence' in warfare was to break the enemy's resistance without any fighting, and take their kingdom whole and intact. The Art of War advocates using the captured enemy to augment one's own strength, as opposed to obliterating the enemy.

Then you're doing it entirely wrong. My first job, I was everyone's bitch. My second job ended with my boss asking, "If I give you 15k as severance, will that be enough?"

Earlier this week I had the Home Owner's Association come by because I had installed a servo and speaker in my mailbox that would make it go "Om nom nom" when someone opened and closed it. A complacent person would have agreed to remove it. I am not a complacent person. My response to the 5 page review of the problem with it was, "If I built this because I was bored, what do you think I would do if I were pissed?"

I really recommend for anyone, especially the business/professional world to read "The Prince," "The Art of War," and "How to Win Friends & Influence People." If you want I can link you to some really good <1 hour long videos on the first two.

Or keep doing whatever you're doing. We all die in the end.

Dafuq? What universe are you living in? Eric Holder didn't do shit to hold the banks accountable. Obama has done very little besides the giant cluster f@$% that's been Obamacare. Social equality my ass.

https://theintercept.com/2015/07/06/eric-holder-returns-law-firm-lobbies-big-banks/

> For the last several years, federal prosecutors during the Obama administration have repeatedly helped misbehaving banks avoid many of the consequences of their actions — and have faced stinging criticism from federal lawmakers and public interest groups for failing to demand accountability.

> One egregious example came in 2012, when the Justice Department allowed U.K. banking giant HSBC to dodge a criminal indictment — despite evidence that it violated U.S. sanctions and allowed Mexico’s Sinaloa Cartel and Colombia’s Norte del Valle Cartel to launder their drug proceeds through the bank’s U.S. and Mexico units. Drug traffickers laundered at least $881 million through HSBC, according to the Justice Department.

http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/obama-hud-big-banks_us_55c4f2f2e4b0923c12bcc4b1

First point.

> "Probably not real, earliest published version I found was this one from 1997, but it seems to have been on the internet slightly before that, see this post from 1996. Hypnosifl 18:17, 30 November 2011 (UTC)"

Not by Shakespeare: Attributing the Most Popular Things that Shakespeare Didn't Say

Good source for common things Shakespeare didn't say, if anyone's interested. Includes the above.

Can you name a corresponding book to read for each individual?

I recently finished Meditations by Marcus Aurelius and I greatly enjoyed his day to day view "do not wish for the things you desire, wish that you no longer desire them"

Before that I read Beyond Good and Evil where I found Nietz to be a bit of a dull individual who intellectually never lived up to the hype especially with his absolutely idiocy towards woman.

The Law by Frderic B was okay

but I recently read a translation of Tao Te Ching and I loved that for everyday life lessons! "The fencer picks up and down his weapon, the boxers are a part of him"

Misattributed

>Source: Will Durant, The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the World's Greatest Philosophers (1926) [Simon & Schuster/Pocket Books, 1991, ISBN 0-671-73916-6] Ch. II: Aristotle and Greek Science; part VII: Ethics and the Nature of Happiness: "Excellence is an art won by training and habituation: we do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have these because we have acted rightly; 'these virtues are formed in man by his doing the actions'; we are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit: 'the good of man is a working of the soul in the way of excellence in a complete life... for as it is not one swallow or one fine day that makes a spring, so it is not one day or a short time that makes a man blessed and happy'" (p. 76). The quoted phrases within the quotation are from the Nicomachean Ethics, Book II, 4; Book I, 7. The misattribution is from taking Durant's summation of Aristotle's ideas as being the words of Aristotle himself.

Well, at least it is:

1. Legible
2. On an image with decent composition
3. Not Comic Sans / Papyrus
4. Actually said by the person it is purported to be said by

The rest is subjective, but I'll take a satirical anti-advice quote over the generic pablum that leaks from /r/GetMotivated.

Adam Smith was an economist and philosopher who wrote An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations (The Wealth of Nations). He is basically considered the father of the Free Market. So considering that basis you can see where this quote comes from.

Explanation: No one does anything for free. For a society to function, and for people to work for that society, they need to get something themselves. Society and The Market function because everyone who enters it has something to gain, some way to help them live, or live better, and by many different people and professions entering it, you get a diverse market that can fill everyone's needs.

Here's a bit I could find:

> Heller said that it took him eight years to write "Catch-22." He acknowledged the influence of Céline, Nathaniel West, Nabokov, Faulkner and in particular Kafka.

That's from a NY Times article here.

Here you go: Sue Tucker

For anyone else reading this, if you want a dose of cool looking animals in your life right now, there are also pictures of a marmot and a young gorilla at that link.

I think you're attributing the government to what happened naturally. As for child labor, watch this. It was increased free-market productivity that made it unnecessary to hire kids. One worker could support their family. If child labor was illegal before the increase in productivity, these kids would have starved. Companies simply wouldn't have the money to pay each worker enough to support the entire family.

And as for the 40 hour work week, read this. Henry Ford experimented with the 5 hour day and found that it was actually more productive. In a little bit of revisionist history, the state regulators took credit for it.

As for integration, I think the laws did accelerate the civil rights movement. But integration would have eventually happened naturally with social pressure. Companies who only hired or sold to whites would be put at a serious competitive disadvantage. Plus, young people would eventually boycott those companies.

I agree with the sentiment of your statement about government. Our government was intended to protect individual rights.

In his 1945 "Notes on Nationalism", Orwell wrote that it was "grossly obvious" that "Those who 'abjure' violence can do so only because others are committing violence on their behalf.""Notes on Nationalism" In an essay on Rudyard Kipling, Orwell cited Kipling's phrase "making mock of uniforms that guard you while you sleep" (Kipling, Tommy), and further noted that Kipling's "grasp of function, of who protects whom, is very sound. He sees clearly that men can be highly civilized only while other men, inevitably less civilized, are there to guard and feed them." (1942)

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/List_of_misquotations

While you may be correct about the original interpretation and context of the quote, you miss how the same tactic is applicable now. It is very relevant on the day after a US president sits beside the Russian president and denies completely all evidence from his own intelligence agencies and statements from a Republican controlled congress.

I bet the Russians are laughing about the "without a shot being fired" part, considering their main vector into the election was the NRA

This is definitely a Tupac song.

Actually there is a perfectly well-functioning market mechanism for planting trees that won't be used within the lifespan of the planter. Say a tree needs to be 80 years old before it can be chopped down for lumber and sold for 100$. A 70 year old tree would be a better investment than a ten-year loan with 5% annual return if it was cheaper than 61.4$. And if somebody wanted to buy trees at age 70 for 61.4$ in order to sell them at age 80 for 100$ then there would also be somebody who would want to buy them at age 60 for 37.7$ and sell them at age 70 for 61.4$. And if you follow that all the way down to year zero you'll find that people would be willing to plant new trees for 2$.

Math explained here.

The Autobiography of Malcolm X: As Told to Alex Haley

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Epicurus#Disputed

It is listed as hearsay, but it's transcribed by a Christian author. Also, the author of the quote is really irrelevant, it is the substance that is important.

But Eric Holder can be President Obama’s wingman?? Fast and Furious? where was the special council for this one?

It's from QuoteFancy (you can see their logo at the bottom), so yes.

Usually, every quote that's there has about 20ish or so backgrounds for you to choose from (example).

Just in case you don't see the reply...

His main hero/idol was Benjamin Graham, author of The Intelligent Investor, which he encourages/recommends any and all people to read, especially if you want to get into investing.

I first read about Epictetus in "A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy" by William Irvine, and he did expound a bit, I guess in a way that Epictetus didn't say in his work, so you are correct.

This is such a simple but elegant quote. If you have not read Extreme Ownership yet, do yourself a favor and grab a copy. It is a great read with a lot of useful information to make everyone a better leader. . . . Photo cred: https://unsplash.com/@dhakad1989

What? No, the entire point of a shadow profile is they're also made for people who either don't have Facebook accounts or have deleted their Facebook accounts.

> How does Facebook have this information about you? Well, it’s all thanks to their automatic harvesting of information from email accounts and phones. Yes, all you need is one friend to search for friends using their email account or one friend to install an app on their phone. Bingo! There’s your Facebook shadow profile with your phone number and email addresses kept together to identify you later.

http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/facebook-shadow-profiles-you-probably-have-one-too-weekly-facebook-tips/

A first step: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VqHSbMR_udo

The meat of the matter: http://manybooks.net/titles/laotzuetext95taote10.html

Seriously, I've had to deal with over 6 years of facing the possibility of death every 4 months, due to a serious health condition and an insurance company that's dead set on denying me care. This is what gave me the strength to adapt to and overcome hopelessness.

Link to a higher resolution version of the posted image:

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Stretched quality or dead link?

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Universe is not in a closed system. Check Electric Universe Model. It is the future of cosmology.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLwOAYhBuU3Uez8f1P6ZyYdI90Egln3rX5

Recommended book for evidences, experiments, observations, theories, etc.: https://www.amazon.com/Physics-Plasma-Universe-Anthony-Peratt-ebook-dp-B00RYSQ7DU/dp/B00RYSQ7DU/

> If someone loves The Art of War enough to own it, I'm going to be watching for signs that that person views our relationship as adversarial and me as an enemy to conquer.

That sounds like a very paranoid mindset. I've read plenty of books whose content has at times been outright disgusting to me. People's choice in reading material is in no way a good indicator of their character.

Unless I'm seeing the collected works of David Duke in someone's bookshelf I'll reserve judgement until I get to know the person.

I think the point he's trying to make in his quote is that one shouldn't proverbially "wait" for inspiration to strike. You should practice it a lot. I don't think he's meaning amateur in the sense of "not successful" but amateur in the sense of approach to your craft. There's many a brilliant writer out there that are brilliant simply because they seek inspiration tenaciously and work hard at honing their skills. It sounds pompous of him to say this but in context if you read On Writing by him you see he talks at length about how much practice good story telling takes.

If you're interested in Feynman's life and his great stories: &quot;Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!&quot; and &quot;What Do You Care What Other People Think?&quot; are great reads. The guy was a goddamn rockstar.

It's not his though. For starters, he was a pre-christianism greek and they definetly didn't have the concept of an omnipotent or benevolent god. Also check this out to see how the misconception that it's by him happened.

As a Muslim, I can tell you that this is the first time I have heard this story. Upon researching this idea I found this >After the events at khaybar, A Jewish women prepared poisoned meat for the Prophet (PBUH), of which he only tasted a morsel before warning the rest of his comrades. One Muslim had already swallowed a mouthful and died immediately. The Prophet himself became very ill from the mere taste of it. The woman who cooked the meat was brought before him and when she explained that she had done it on account of the humiliation of her people, he forgave her.

This Doesn't represent what the majority of Muslims believe, and It very much seems to be overplaying a rivalry between Muslims and Jews that simply didn't exist at the time. I don't know what this "humiliation of her people" means as the Muhammad held a treaty with the Jews in 1622, and died in 1632.

Whoops, got it confused with Calvary Church. THIS is what I was thinking of.

The song by blink-182 Anesthesia was written exactly about this. An astronaut in space wondering whether or not he should go back to earth.

Interview with Mark and Tom http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=3082

YouTube link https://youtu.be/B6aCHGIkzRk

It has been attributed to him but there is no sign of a primary source anywhere. He was known to have a delusional, mystical side so the quote is in line with his character.

That is indeed the goal of the teachings in The Art of War and the people vying for power in GoT. You have to manipulate your way to win. People who start off by waving around their power are scary at first, but usually end up dead, because they essentially revealed their hand too soon.

Fair enough, I can understand that if that's your experience.

But be mindful that red pillers and edgy philosophy majors are veeeery late comers to the party.

In China and the Eastern world, The Art of War has been considered not just a seminal philosophy text, but probably the singular most important treatise on strategy ever written - not simply on military matters, but in many areas of life, especially business and politics. It's impact has been very similar in the West since it was first translated a few centuries ago. It's almost impossible to calculate it's enormous impact on human society.

From Sun Tzu's The Art of War

(all this in the 1st of 13 sections, called "Laying Plans")

>18 All warfare is based on deception.

>19 Hence, when able to attack, we must seem unable; when using our forces, we must seem inactive; when we are near, we must make the enemy believe we are far away; when far away, we must make him believe we are near.

>20 Hold out baits to entice the enemy. Feign disorder, and crush him.

>21 If he is secure at all points, be prepared for him. If he is in superior strength, evade him.

>22 If your opponent is of choleric temper, seek to irritate him. Pretend to be weak, that he may grow arrogant.

>23 If he is taking his ease, give him no rest. If his forces are united, separate them.

>24 Attack him where he is unprepared, appear where you are not expected.

>25 These military devices, leading to victory, must not be divulged beforehand.

In my estimation, Sun Tzu is a full step ahead of you. To repeat: All warfare is based on deception.

Granted, it's still great advice well into Masters.

Hey, you're quite welcome! I assume you would've gone for something like cloying, sappy, saccharine or hokey, possibly, as seen here under “Synonyms”. :P

Curiously enough, I often think that sometimes I have a very, very slight advantage over anglophones because there are often more or less common portuguese words which can be sort of directly translated to english but aren't in common usage by native speakers of the language. In this case, I just couldn't remember a good enough word for what I meant.

Not all of us are so tied to the original French.

"If you live in Kansas for example, 'on route' might be perfectly acceptable. Where I live in Quebec, it would be a grievous faux pas."

In fact, some people might even think you're a little too posh if you insist on really pronouncing the Frenchness in "en route". If you leave out the 'te' at the end completely, then people would really start to wonder if you're really a man of the people or some bourgeois elite ; )

https://www.quora.com/Which-is-the-best-English-en-route-or-on-route

>I know that you believe you understand what you think I said, but I'm not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.

>Attributed to Robert McCloskey, U.S. State Department spokesman, by Marvin Kalb, CBS reporter, in TV Guide, 31 March 1984, citing an unspecified press briefing during the Vietnam war.

Misattributed to Alan Greenspan: >I know you think you understand what you thought I said, but I'm not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant

>Attributed to Greenspan by Rupert Cornwell, "Alan Greenspan: The buck starts here", The Independent, 27 April 2003, citing an unspecified Capitol Hill hearing.

>However, as Ralph Keyes notes in The Quote Verifier (2006, p. 233), "This popular tongue twister gets attributed to the obfuscator du jour." The earliest known print attribution is to Robert McCloskey, U.S. State Department spokesman, by Marvin Kalb, CBS reporter, in TV Guide, 31 March 1984, citing an unspecified press briefing during the Vietnam war.

This quote is indeed accreditted to Lincoln. Here is the quote mentioned in Wikiquote

"Why, madam," Lincoln replied, "do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?"

Abraham Lincoln in response to an elderly lady who had chastised him for not calling Southerners, who he had referred to as fellow human beings who were in error, irreconcilable enemies who must be destroyed. See Robert Greene, Jost Elfers, The 48 Laws of Power (London, Great Britain: PROFILE BOOKS LTD, 2000), p. 12. Google Books link.

Abraham Lincoln may have paraphrased the above quoted question from Holy Roman Emperor Sigismund. The Family Magazine Volume IV. from 1837 contains the following story: Some courtiers reproached the Emperor Sigismond that, instead of destroying his conquered foes, he admitted them to favour. “Do I not,” replied the illustrious monarch, “effectually destroy my enemies, when I make them my friends?” Source: The Reverend Joseph Belcher, Jost Elfers, THE FAMILY MAGAZINE VOl. IV (London, Great Britain: Thomas Ward and Co., 1837), p. 123. Google Books link.

You should check out The Iron Heel. I'm reading it right now and it does a really good job of explaining why we're made to endure this insane lifestyle.

In this sub, money = rich people and/or capitalism, and this sub occasionally has a mild anti-rich bias/circlejerk.

Of course, the actual quote's taken out of context, repeated incorrectly, and rarely sourced so we may understand that context.

>Perfection of means and confusion of goals seem–in my opinion–to characterize our age. If we desire sincerely and passionately for the safety, the welfare, and the free development of the talents of all men, we shall not be in want of the means to approach such a state. Even if only a small part of mankind strives for such goals, their superiority will prove itself in the long run.

From T.S. Eliot's 1940 poem, East Coker, the second of the Four Quartets. This excerpt is taken from the third section of East Coker; I've provided the five lines that immediately follow it below.

Whisper of running streams, and winter lightning. The wild thyme unseen and the wild strawberry, The laughter in the garden, echoed ecstasy Not lost, but requiring, pointing to the agony Of death and birth.

Reddit Enhancement Suite (RES) is a tool for reddit that allows you to block words/subreddits from appearing on reddit while the connected account is logged in.

It has alot of other functions such as tagging redditors you've seen before by clicking on their name and allowing you to view any subreddit in default appearence without affecting other subreddit's appearence.

If you want to go out during this warmer season to pick up trash, a bucket (not going to flap around in the wind) and a grabby tool make the job 10x easier.

Beyond Mindfulness in Plain English. http://www.wisdompubs.org/book/beyond-mindfulness-plain-english

So far it's very similar to his first book, "mindfulness in plain English" which was absolutely amazing. They both guise themselves as being dedicated solely to meditation but are actually filled with Theravada Buddhist principles (re: psychology) that are eye opening and uplifting. I'd highly recommend both. The first is actually distributed to Thai students as a part of their curriculum in school (translated to Thai of course).

Here is the entire book "mindfulness in plain English" online for free, offered by the publisher though this is through a third party website. Scroll down for links to preface and all chapters. https://www.urbandharma.org/udharma4/mpe.html

:)

Well, the author is a dying brain surgeon, so it's actually entirely reasonable to believe he talks that way. In his book, he talks about reading massive amounts of literature, and going back and forth between research, lit, and neurosurgery to try and understand what makes a person a person, "meaning of life" type questions...I can see how it sounds weird out of context, but read within the rest of the book, it makes sense.

(It's from a book called "When Breath Becomes Air." I definitely recommend it.)

Cheers man. I've just finished the book Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! and I'll be going on to the one you've recommended next :)

http://www.amazon.com/Surely-Feynman-Adventures-Curious-Character/dp/0393316041/ref=pd_sim_b_2/175-5309930-4744562?ie=UTF8&amp;refRID=1DCAC154J2CFHZSADHPZ

I pulled the quote from Frankl's book Man's Search for Meaning and used it as inspiration for this piece I wrote. Frankl didn't credit it, but thanks for catching. The more you know!

I'm glad you enjoy it. I picked up the quote from this post about Frankl's book Man's Search for Meaning

Indeed, keeping information secret gives both defensive and offensive advantages as described thousands of years ago in The Art of War.

Let's be clear that law enforcement is also "dangerous". What we're really worried about is criminals; I believe that infiltrating their circles doesn't usually happen by being quiet.

People who know how to use their voice (i.e. politicians) are even more powerful/dangerous than those who know how to be quiet, IMO.

Awesome. I've read most of his work and listened to a number of his talks. Underground History of American Education is a monster, it can be a bit tedious and complex for those not schooled on his delivery method, but is just jam packed with wide and varied sources to make his point.

If you want the quick, easy and dirty read on his idea, try Dumbing Us Down or possible Weapons of Mass Instruction. Actually, look into The Fourth Purpose if you aren't completely bought into his philosophy. He really mimics the ideas of The Republic by Plato and gets into how education isn't for the benefit of who is being taught, but those that are designing the curriculum.

Cheers -zen

Can you please share these links you speak of? Also, I've read The Prince and really enjoyed it. What specifically about the contents The Art of War and How to Win Friends and Influence People do you think make these required readings?

The Art of War by the History Channel. I had to read this book in the Navy and you could tell a difference between the guys who saw it as more than a homework assignment and the men who used it in work. This video really clicked everything in it together for me, giving several examples and really interesting narrative. Give me your feedback on it and we'll have a discussion.

The Prince by the History Channel again. I have mixed feelings on the work itself, seeming a bit of a condescending letter (albeit good advice), but when you look at it in the context these guys put it in, same as with the Art of War using examples but no narrative this time, it really kind of sticks out.

Regarding your second question, The Prince will teach you how to appear a leader by visage and look, The Art of War will teach you how to lead people effectively by standard and example, and How to Win Friends and Influence People will teach you how to communicate the ideals the two people the other two books need you to be able to do.

Great quote, Frankl's book(Man's Search for Meaning) was a book I had lying around for years before I read it but it's a book I now re-read often, for anyone who hasn't read it I'd say get a copy and read it soon, it's a profound book. The first part is about his experiences in the camps which is the part that touched me most in the book, the second part is about the psychological theory he developed after the war.

#183. "I am affected, not because you have deceived me, but because I can no longer believe in you." CHAPTER IV. APOPHTHEGMS AND INTERLUDES

Source: Beyond Good and Evil, by Friedrich Nietzsche

Good catch. It is definitely differently worded form of this aphorism number 183.

#183. "I am affected, not because you have deceived me, but because I can no longer believe in you."

Source: Beyond Good and Evil, by Friedrich Nietzsche

Here's the book

Nope. The Body Keeps Scoreis the latest in trauma therapy and has shown itself to be highly effective. Funnily enough, the title of the book ties directly to this Freud quote because the contents of the book are almost exclusively related to this Freud quote.

$250k/year is not arbitrary, and obviously not a permanent figure. It would change as society changes.

>what if he funds many different investments he can get up to 250k total or per?

$250k/year income, total.

>it is not fair for a father of 6 divorced in Frisco with a 6k rent and a 4k support salary

1) If this were to be implemented, it would drastically affect property values and rent pricing, obviously. Also, I subscribe to a variation of Georgism that all land ought to be held in common by all the people, not as private property.

2) $6k/month in rent is ridiculous to begin with, and a poor choice of housing on his part. He doesn't NEED to live there. He can choose other housing that is cheaper.

3) Child Support payments as you describe, would actually be about $3511/month out of a $20,000/month salary. It's a pittance. Even if his rent remains at $6k/month and his child support payments are $4k/month, he's still left with $10,000/month spending money, to blow as he pleases!!

>has the same upper limit as a guy that has inherited his fathers ventures, a house and lives in the middle of "low cost of living - vile"

Again, land would no longer be owned by anyone. Everyone would pay rent to the community to live in their community.

There would be no inheritance and no need for inheritance.

>Why would I invest in something high risk if my potential to make money is set by an arbitrary upper limit

You wouldn't. You would just go about your everyday life in peace.

>I'm left leaning as they go

Obviously not.

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I could not find a source for this quote. Since it so clearly reflected the Yeats quote from "The Second Coming," I decided to go hunting. My search for a source led me to this page:

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Talk:Bertrand_Russell

A contributor there says that they also had trouble sourcing the quote. They did, however, point towards this quote:

"The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt."

--Bertrand Russell, "The Triumph of Stupidity" (1933-05-10) in Mortals and Others: Bertrand Russell's American Essays, 1931-1935 (Routledge, 1998, ISBN 0-415-17866-5), p. 28.

Note that the quote comes considerably later than "The Second Coming." Yeats's poem was written in 1919.

I totally agree. I too couldn't locate any kind of authentic reading to support this quote. The quote sounds too managerial too be Einsteinian. P.S> https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Talk:Albert_Einstein

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[OS] Found this gem while browsing through Google's newspaper archive. It can be found here: http://news.google.com/newspapers

I can not, unfortunately, provide a reliable source. I found it on this website and a quick google search showed it being attributed to him by many other websites.

It is possible that it is extracted from Mein Kampf / a speech or similar things.

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Google search (just look it up):

DeVon Franklin Quote: “Don't downgrade your dream to match your reality. Upgrade your faith to match your destiny.”



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What's more interesting is when you compare starvation deaths to money spent on obesity related diseases. $ 270,079,501Money spent for obesity related diseases in the USA today. From http://www.worldometers.info/

I've been active in progressing womens' causes for a long time, so I'm not so much asking how to get started, but more what your views on the topic are. I think that Caroline Criado Perez outlined many of the larger proposals in her book Invisible Women. It goes far beyond employment issues and points out many many areas where the "default male" perspective is faulty.

I will say it is discouraging to try to discuss this topic when simple questions are downvoted. The assumption that any man that dares to ask questions is an enemy certainly does not help the cause and only acts to alienate potential allies.

There's an interesting book by Miguel Serrano about his correspondence with Carl Jung and Herman Hesse:

https://www.amazon.com/C-G-Hermann-Hesse-Miguel-Serrano/dp/3856305580

Just thought I'd mention as it's fairly short and an interesting read.

Don't lose hope. It is an ultra challenging read. Especially if you are not aware of the full context and allegories. But go through a couple of times and it will start making more and more sense.

The best way to read Geeta is to find an original translation. The best translations are by Gita Press, Gorakhpur. However these are hard to come by if you are out of India.

Another recommendation is this: https://smile.amazon.com/Bhagavad-Easwarans-Classics-Indian-Spirituality-ebook/dp/B004DI7R5G/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1530759145&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=Eknath+Easwaran. May be try that.

"He learned from an old lady who, at age 16, gave a Jew a bowl of soup. It was a death sentence at the time and she was sent to Auschwitz:”

“remember, the righteous didn’t suddenly become righteous. They just refused to go over the cliff with everybody else.’ That’s all we have to do: Know what our principles—not our interests—are today. And as the world goes over the cliff, I’m not going to change my principles. Treating human beings, whether they’re like me or not like me, whether they’re the same religion or a different religion, with love and respect.” -- Glenn Beck as quoted in "Tools of Titans" by Tim Ferris

That's all true, and I get what you're saying. But in my experience, people who read it and try to live by it are envisioning themselves as these badass, calculating people who can dominate any interaction because of something they read in a book. It makes me cringe.

It's an important work, I'll grant you that. But the significance of it lies in the history you named, not in its value as a roadmap. People try too hard to make it fit their lives, and nine times out of ten it just makes them look ridiculous.

I dunno. I guess I just have a problem with people who try to make themselves out as more than what they are, and in my experience, people who list The Art of War as their favorite book are usually doing exactly that.

> If someone loves The Art of War enough to own it,

How else are they going to find out whether they like or not without buying it? Ive bought plenty of books then found out I didnt like them once I read them. I dont just throw those books away.

Most people wont find out if they love a book until you know they read it