

“The irony of the process of thought control: the more energy you put into trying to control your ideas and what you think about, the more your ideas end up controlling you.”
― Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder
― Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder

“If you have more than one reason to do something (choose a doctor or veterinarian, hire a gardener or an employee, marry a person, go on a trip), just don’t do it. It does not mean that one reason is better than two, just that by invoking more than one reason you are trying to convince yourself to do something. Obvious decisions (robust to error) require no more than a single reason.”
― Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder
― Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder

“Modernity has replaced ethics with legalese, and the law can be gamed with a good lawyer.”
― Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder
― Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder

“The value of any commodity, therefore, to the person who possesses it, and who means not to use or consume it himself, but to exchange it for other commodities, is equal to the quantity of labour which it enables him to purchase or command. Labour, therefore, is the real measure of the exchangeable value of all commodities. The real price of everything, what everything really costs to the man who wants to acquire it, is the toil and trouble of acquiring it.”
― The Wealth of Nations
― The Wealth of Nations

“Our relationship wasn't the sun, the moon, the stars, but it wasn't bullshit, either.”
― This Is How You Lose Her
― This Is How You Lose Her

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