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" 'text': 'The passion of surprise and wonder, arising from miracles, being an agreeable emotion, gives a sensible tendency towards the belief of those events, from which it is derived. And this goes so far, that even those who cannot enjoy this pleasure immediately, nor can believe those miraculous events, of which they are informed, yet love to partake of the satisfaction at second-hand or by rebound, and place a pride and delight in exciting the admiration of others.',\n",
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" 'text': 'The shock of encountering an ancient author speaking in largely recognizable language can make him seem more strange, and newly strange. I would like to invite readers to experience a sense of connection to this ancient text, while also recognizing its vast distance from our own place and time. Homer is, and is not, our contemporary.',\n",
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" 'text': 'I cried out, ‘Curse her! Zeus has always brought disaster to the house of Atreus through women. Many men were lost for Helen, and Clytemnestra formed this plot against you when you were far away.’',\n",
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" 'text': 'Writing must have played a central part in the process of composition, so it is very misleading to describe The Odyssey simply as an “oral” poem, as is far too often done. It is a written text based on an oral tradition, which is not at all the same as being an actual oral composition.',\n",
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" 'text': 'The Academy, where Plato had taught, survived all other schools, and persisted, as an island of paganism, for two centuries after the conversion of the Roman Empire to Christianity. At last, in A.D. 529, it was closed by Justinian because of his religious bigotry, and the Dark Ages descended upon Europe.',\n",
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" 'text': 'It has always been correct to praise Plato, but not to understand him. This is the common fate of great men. My object is the opposite. I wish to understand him, but to treat him with as little reverence as if he were a contemporary English or American advocate of totalitarianism.',\n",
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" 'text': 'For Pythagoras, the “passionate sympathetic contemplation” was intellectual, and issued in mathematical knowledge. In this way, through Pythagoreanism, “theory” gradually acquired its modern meaning; but for all who were inspired by Pythagoras it retained an element of ecstatic revelation.',\n",
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" 'text': 'This is an example of the evils of specialization: a man must not write on Plato unless he has spent so much of his youth on Greek as to have had no time for the things that Plato thought important.',\n",
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" 'text': 'What these arguments prove—and I do not think the proof can be controverted—is that induction is an independent logical principle, incapable of being inferred either from experience or from other logical principles, and that without this principle science is impossible.',\n",
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" 'text': 'Rousseau’s political theory is set forth in his Social Contract, published in 1762. This book is very different in character from most of his writing; it contains little sentimentality and much close intellectual reasoning. Its doctrines, though they pay lip-service to democracy, tend to the justification of the totalitarian State.',\n",
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" 'text': 'If you think that by killing men you can prevent some one from censuring your evil lives, you are mistaken; that is not a way of escape which is either possible or honourable; the easiest and the noblest way is not to be disabling others, but to be improving yourselves.',\n",
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" 'text': 'Marx fitted his philosophy of history into a mould suggested by Hegelian dialectic, but in fact there was only one triad that concerned him: feudalism, represented by the landowner; capitalism, represented by the industrial employer; and Socialism, represented by the wage-earner.',\n",
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" 'text': 'If a man is to be a good statesman, he must know the Good; this he can only do by a combination of intellectual and moral discipline. If those who have not gone through this discipline are allowed a share in the government, they will inevitably corrupt it.',\n",
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" 'text': 'The Greeks, borrowing from the Phoenicians, altered the alphabet to suit their language, and made the important innovation of adding vowels instead of having only consonants. There can be no doubt that the acquisition of this convenient method of writing greatly hastened the rise of Greek civilization.',\n",
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" 'text': 'THE period of history which is commonly called “modern” has a mental outlook which differs from that of the medieval period in many ways. Of these, two are the most important: the diminishing authority of the Church, and the increasing authority of science.',\n",
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" 'text': 'FOUR men are called the Doctors of the Western Church: Saint Ambrose, Saint Jerome, Saint Augustine, and Pope Gregory the Great.',\n",
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" 'text': 'Pythagoreanism, he says, was a movement of reform in Orphism, and Orphism was a movement of reform in the worship of Dionysus.',\n",
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" 'text': 'The conflict between duty to God and duty to the State, which Christianity had introduced, took the form of a conflict between Church and king.',\n",
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" 'text': 'This is what Steven Sloman and Philip Fernbach have termed “the knowledge illusion.” We think we know a lot, even though individually we know very little, because we treat knowledge in the minds of others as if it were our own.',\n",
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" 'text': 'Our galaxy and other galaxies, however, must contain a large amount of “dark matter” that we cannot see directly, but which we know must be there because of the influence of its gravitational attraction on the orbits of stars in the galaxies.',\n",
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" 'text': 'As we shall see, the concept of time has no meaning before the beginning of the universe. This was first pointed out by St. Augustine. When asked: “What did God do before he created the universe?” Augustine didn’t reply: “He was preparing Hell for people who asked such questions.” Instead, he said that time was a property of the universe that God created, and that time did not exist before the beginning of the universe.',\n",
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" 'text': 'On the moon, where there is no air to slow things down, the astronaut David R. Scott performed the feather and lead weight experiment and found that indeed they did hit the ground at the same time.',\n",
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" 'text': 'In 1620 Francis Bacon published a scientific manifesto titled The New Instrument. In it he argued that ‘knowledge is power’. The real test of ‘knowledge’ is not whether it is true, but whether it empowers us. Scientists usually assume that no theory is 100 per cent correct. Consequently, truth is a poor test for knowledge. The real test is utility. A theory that enables us to do new things constitutes knowledge.',\n",
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" 'text': 'So perhaps happiness is synchronising one’s personal delusions of meaning with the prevailing collective delusions. As long as my personal narrative is in line with the narratives of the people around me, I can convince myself that my life is meaningful, and find happiness in that conviction.',\n",
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" 'text': 'This approach is sometimes called memetics. It assumes that, just as organic evolution is based on the replication of organic information units called ‘genes’, so cultural evolution is based on the replication of cultural information units called ‘memes’.1 Successful cultures are those that excel in reproducing their memes, irrespective of the costs and benefits to their human hosts.',\n",
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" 'text': 'Each year the US population spends more money on diets than the amount needed to feed all the hungry people in the rest of the world.',\n",
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" 'text': 'Busyness as Proxy for Productivity: In the absence of clear indicators of what it means to be productive and valuable in their jobs, many knowledge workers turn back toward an industrial indicator of productivity: doing lots of stuff in a visible manner.',\n",
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" 'text': 'Calm your mind to really see. — At this moment stop inwardly — when you do stop inwardly, psychologically, your mind becomes very peaceful, very clear. Then you can really look at “this.”',\n",
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" 'text': 'Action is a highroad to self-esteem. — Action is a highroad to self-confidence and esteem. Where it is open, all energies flow toward it. It comes readily to most people, and its rewards are tangible.',\n",
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" 'text': 'Transcending self-consciousness. — What man has to get over is the consciousness — the consciousness of himself. It is not “I am doing this,” but rather an inner realization that “this is happening through me,” or “it is doing this for me.” The consciousness of self is the greatest hindrance to the proper execution of all physical action.',\n",
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" 'text': 'A five-step process to formulating ideas. Gather materials. Masticate the facts. Relax and drop the whole subject. Be ready to recognize and welcome the idea when it comes. Shape and develop your idea into usefulness.',\n",
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" 'text': 'Worry only creates problems for those around you. — One who is possessed by worry not only lacks the poise to solve his own problems, but by his nervousness and irritability creates additional problems for those around him.',\n",
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" 'text': 'The pendulum of life must have balance. — Only sober moderation lasts, and that persists through all time. Only the midpart of anything is preserved because the pendulum of life must have balance, and the midpart is the balance.',\n",
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" 'text': 'The best CEOs and founders have learned that trying to predict the future is vastly inferior to discovering what customers want by running experiments with real customers using methods based on the scientific method.',\n",
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" 'text': 'Nassim Taleb described why business plans rob businesses of their potential value when he said, “A rigid business plan gets one locked into a preset invariant policy, like a highway without exits—hence devoid of optionality.”',\n",
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" 'text': 'Characteristics of the best ideas: (a) Powerful people dismiss them as toys; (b) They unbundle functions done by others; (c) They often start off as hobbies; and (d) They often challenge social norms.',\n",
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" 'text': 'Founders and investors harvest the biggest financial returns when uncertainty is greatest since that is when assets are most likely to be mispriced.',\n",
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" 'text': 'It goes without saying that by manufactured article we expressly do not mean any work of plastic art. Moreover, by forma substantialis the scholastics in fact understood what I call the grade of the will’s objectification in a thing.',\n",
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" 'text': 'Today we have discovered a powerful and elegant way to understand the universe, a method called science; it has revealed to us a universe so ancient and so vast that human affairs seem at first sight to be of little consequence.',\n",
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" 'text': 'But if the Cosmos is closed and light cannot escape from it, then it may be perfectly correct to describe the universe as a black hole. If you wish to know what it is like inside a black hole, look around you.',\n",
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" 'text': 'Life on Earth runs almost exclusively on sunlight. Plants gather the photons and convert solar to chemical energy. Animals parasitize the plants. Farming is simply the methodical harvesting of sunlight, using plants as grudging intermediaries. We are, almost all of us, solar-powered.',\n",
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" 'text': 'If we were randomly inserted into the Cosmos, the chance that we would find ourselves on or near a planet would be less than one in a billion trillion trillion* (1033, a one followed by 33 zeroes). In everyday life such odds are called compelling. Worlds are precious.',\n",
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" 'text': 'Suppose you take an apple pie and cut it in half; take one of the two pieces, cut it in half; and, in the spirit of Democritus, continue. How many cuts before you are down to a single atom? The answer is about ninety successive cuts.',\n",
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" 'text': 'The resistance to Aristarchus and Copernicus, a kind of geocentrism in everyday life, remains with us: we still talk about the Sun “rising” and the Sun “setting.” It is 2,200 years since Aristarchus, and our language still pretends that the Earth does not turn.',\n",
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" 'text': 'Our technology is increasingly permitting us to explore the wonders of the Cosmos and to reduce the Earth to chaos. We are privileged to live in, and if we are lucky to influence, one of the most critical epochs in the history of the human species.',\n",
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" 'text': 'But only three years after Comte’s death, it was discovered that a spectrum can be used to determine the chemistry of distant objects. Different molecules and chemical elements absorb different frequencies or colors of light, sometimes in the visible and sometimes elsewhere in the spectrum.',\n",
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" 'text': 'Complaining about not achieving success despite working hard is like complaining about an ice cube not melting when you heated it from twenty-five to thirty-one degrees. Your work was not wasted; it is just being stored. All the action happens at thirty-two degrees.',\n",
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" 'text': 'That essentially defines the quest for enlightenment; the you that you think of as you (and that thinks of you as you, and so on) is not you, it’s just the character that the underlying truth of you is dreaming into brief existence. Enlightenment isn’t in the character, it’s in the underlying truth.',\n",
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" 'text': 'As we shall see, the lesson they teach is that we are designed for a system of monogamy plagued by adultery.',\n",
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" 'text': 'In short, the reason adultery is so common in colonial birds is that it enables a male bird to have more young and enables a female bird to have better young.',\n",
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" 'text': 'Only when the two interests coincided would it act selflessly.',\n",
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" 'text': 'When Faust, in a line immortalized among schoolmasters and greeted with a shudder of astonishment by the Philistine, says: “Two souls, alas, do dwell within my breast!” he has forgotten Mephisto and a whole crowd of other souls that he has in his breast likewise.',\n",
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" 'text': 'And even the unhappiest life has its sunny moments and its little flowers of happiness between sand and stone.',\n",
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" 'text': 'I believe that the struggle against death, the unconditional and self-willed determination to live, is the motive power behind the lives and activities of all outstanding men.',\n",
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" 'text': 'My regret was for the present day, for all the countless hours and days that I lost in mere passivity and that brought me nothing, not even the shocks of awakening.',\n",
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" 'text': 'Instead of narrowing your world and simplifying your soul, you will have to absorb more and more of the world and at last take all of it up in your painfully expanded soul, if you are ever to find peace.',\n",
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" 'text': 'This world is the succession of the representations of this consciousness, the form of its knowing, and apart from this loses all meaning, and is nothing at all.',\n",
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" 'text': 'Whether professionals have a chance to develop intuitive expertise depends essentially on the quality and speed of feedback, as well as on sufficient opportunity to practice.',\n",
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" 'text': 'The Alar tale illustrates a basic limitation in the ability of our mind to deal with small risks: we either ignore them altogether or give them far too much weight—nothing in between.',\n",
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" 'text': 'In summary, most of what you (your System 2) think and do originates in your System 1, but System 2 takes over when things get difficult, and it normally has the last word.',\n",
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" 'text': 'Cognitive strain, whatever its source, mobilizes System 2, which is more likely to reject the intuitive answer suggested by System 1.',\n",
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" 'text': 'The tendency to like (or dislike) everything about a person—including things you have not observed—is known as the halo effect.',\n",
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" 'text': 'Traveling close to the speed of light you would hardly age at all, but your friends and your relatives back home would be aging at the usual rate.',\n",
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" 'text': 'Just before his death he wrote: “I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy, playing on the seashore, and diverting myself, in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, while the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.”',\n",
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" 'text': 'Our corn, or maize, has been bred for ten thousand generations to be more tasty and nutritious than its scrawny ancestors; indeed, it is so changed that it cannot even reproduce without human intervention.',\n",
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" 'text': 'Carl wanted everyone to come on this voyage; to experience the power of the scientific perspective and the wonders it reveals. His secret was to recapture the person he was before he understood the concept and then retrace his own thought steps toward comprehension. He inspired legions to study, teach, and do science.',\n",
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" 'text': 'If I finish a book a week, I will read only a few thousand books in my lifetime, about a tenth of a percent of the contents of the greatest libraries of our time. The trick is to know which books to read.',\n",
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" 'text': 'It is dedicated to the proposition that the public is far more intelligent than it has generally been given credit for; that the deepest scientific questions on the nature and origin of the world excite the interests and passions of enormous numbers of people.',\n",
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" 'text': 'Success is not a goal to reach or a finish line to cross. It is a system to improve, an endless process to refine.',\n",
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" 'text': 'My responsibility is toward my heart, not toward anybody else in the world. So is your responsibility only toward your own being. Don’t go against it, because going against it is committing suicide, is destroying yourself.',\n",
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" 'text': 'Committing many mistakes, one learns what is a mistake and how not to commit it. Knowing what is error, one comes closer and closer to what is truth. It is an individual. exploration; you cannot depend on others conclusions.',\n",
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" 'text': 'THE GREATEST FEAR IN THE WORLD IS OF THE OPINIONS OF OTHERS. And the moment you are unafraid of the crowd you are no longer a sheep, you become a lion. A great roar arises in your heart, the roar of freedom.',\n",
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" 'text': 'Why are you afraid? What can the world do to you? People can laugh at you; it will do them good—laughter is always a medicine, healthful.',\n",
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" 'text': 'Life is like that. You cannot prepare for it, you cannot be ready for it. That’s its beauty, that’s its wonder, that it always takes you unawares, it always comes as a surprise. If you have eyes you will see that each moment is a surprise and no ready-made answer is ever applicable.',\n",
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" 'text': 'Life is not a problem. To look at it as a problem is to take a wrong step. It is a mystery to be lived, loved, experienced.',\n",
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" 'text': 'In the beginning there is not much difference between the coward and the courageous person. The only difference is, the coward listens to his fears and follows them, and the courageous person puts them aside and goes ahead. The courageous person goes into the unknown in spite of all the fears.',\n",
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" 'text': 'If you engage in a Black Swan–dependent activity, it is better to be part of a group.',\n",
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" 'text': 'In a famous argument, the logician W. V. Quine showed that there exist families of logically consistent interpretations and theories that can match a given series of facts. Such insight should warn us that mere absence of nonsense may not be sufficient to make something true.',\n",
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" 'text': 'A life saved is a statistic; a person hurt is an anecdote. Statistics are invisible; anecdotes are salient. Likewise, the risk of a Black Swan is invisible.',\n",
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" 'text': 'The problem is that our ideas are sticky: once we produce a theory, we are not likely to change our minds—so those who delay developing their theories are better off.',\n",
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" 'text': 'You need a story to displace a story. Metaphors and stories are far more potent (alas) than ideas; they are also easier to remember and more fun to read. If I have to go after what I call the narrative disciplines, my best tool is a narrative. Ideas come and go, stories stay.',\n",
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" 'text': 'The neglect of silent evidence is endemic to the way we study comparative talent, particularly in activities that are plagued with winner-take-all attributes. We may enjoy what we see, but there is no point reading too much into success stories because we do not see the full picture.',\n",
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" 'text': 'The Black Swan asymmetry allows you to be confident about what is wrong, not about what you believe is right.',\n",
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" 'text': 'What matters is not how often you are right, but how large your cumulative errors are.',\n",
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" 'text': 'Memory is more of a self-serving dynamic revision machine: you remember the last time you remembered the event and, without realizing it, change the story at every subsequent remembrance.',\n",
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" 'text': 'I can state the supreme law of Mediocristan as follows: When your sample is large, no single instance will significantly change the aggregate or the total. The largest observation will remain impressive, but eventually insignificant, to the sum.',\n",
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" 'text': 'In short, the Communists everywhere support every revolutionary movement against the existing social and political order of things.',\n",
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" 'text': 'The need of a constantly expanding market for its products chases the bourgeoisie over the whole surface of the globe.',\n",
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" 'text': 'The development of Modern Industry, therefore, cuts from under its feet the very foundation on which the bourgeoisie produces and appropriates products. What the bourgeoisie, therefore, produces, above all, is its own grave-diggers. Its fall and the victory of the proletariat are equally inevitable.',\n",
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" 'text': 'This organisation of the proletarians into a class, and consequently into a political party, is continually being upset again by the competition between the workers themselves. But it ever rises up again, stronger, firmer, mightier.',\n",
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" 'text': 'All that we want to do away with, is the miserable character of this appropriation, under which the labourer lives merely to increase capital, and is allowed to live only in so far as the interest of the ruling class requires it.',\n",
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" 'text': 'The real fruit of their battles lies, not in the immediate result, but in the ever-expanding union of the workers. This union is helped on by the improved means of communication that are created by modern industry and that place the workers of different localities in contact with one another.',\n",
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" 'text': 'These labourers, who must sell themselves piece-meal, are a commodity, like every other article of commerce, and are consequently exposed to all the vicissitudes of competition, to all the fluctuations of the market.',\n",
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" 'text': 'It has resolved personal worth into exchange value, and in place of the numberless and feasible chartered freedoms, has set up that single, unconscionable freedom--Free Trade. In one word, for exploitation, veiled by religious and political illusions, naked, shameless, direct, brutal exploitation.',\n",
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" 'text': 'It compels all nations, on pain of extinction, to adopt the bourgeois mode of production; it compels them to introduce what it calls civilisation into their midst, i.e., to become bourgeois themselves. In one word, it creates a world after its own image.',\n",
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" 'text': 'Society as a whole is more and more splitting up into two great hostile camps, into two great classes, directly facing each other: Bourgeoisie and Proletariat.',\n",
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" 'text': 'He always seems to be merely playing without business-affairs, they never fully become a part of him, they never rule over him, he is never afraid of failure, he is never upset by a loss.”',\n",
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" 'text': 'When he ferried travellers of the ordinary kind, childlike people, businessmen, warriors, women, these people did not seem alien to him as they used to: he understood them, he understood and shared their life, which was not guided by thoughts and insight, but solely by urges and wishes, he felt like them.',\n",
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" 'text': '“What is meditation? What is leaving one’s body? What is fasting? What is holding one’s breath? It is fleeing from the self, it is a short escape of the agony of being a self, it is a short numbing of the senses against the pain and the pointlessness of life.',\n",
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" 'text': '“I can think. I can wait. I can fast.”',\n",
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" 'text': 'Om is the bow, the arrow is soul, The Brahman is the arrow’s target, That one should incessantly hit.',\n",
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" 'text': '“It is good,” he thought, “to get a taste of everything for oneself, which one needs to know. That lust for the world and riches do not belong to the good things, I have already learned as a child. I have known it for a long time, but I have experienced only now. And now I know it, don’t just know it in my memory, but in my eyes, in my heart, in my stomach. Good for me, to know this!”',\n",
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" 'text': 'Siddhartha does nothing, he waits, he thinks, he fasts, but he passes through the things of the world like a rock through water, without doing anything, without stirring; he is drawn, he lets himself fall. His goal attracts him, because he doesn’t let anything enter his soul which might oppose the goal.',\n",
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" 'text': 'He envied them for the one thing that was missing from him and that they had, the importance they were able to attach to their lives, the amount of passion in their joys and fears, the fearful but sweet happiness of being constantly in love.',\n",
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" 'text': 'I want to learn from myself, want to be my student, want to get to know myself, the secret of Siddhartha.”',\n",
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" 'text': 'Slowly blossomed, slowly ripened in Siddhartha the realisation, the knowledge, what wisdom actually was, what the goal of his long search was. It was nothing but a readiness of the soul, an ability, a secret art, to think every moment, while living his life, the thought of oneness, to be able to feel and inhale the oneness.',\n",
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" 'text': 'True barter requires that you give up something you value in exchange for something else you value slightly more.',\n",
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" 'text': 'So this is what poverty means. You are poor to the extent that you cannot afford to sell your time for sufficient price to buy the services you need, and rich to the extent that you can afford to buy not just the services you need but also those you crave.',\n",
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" 'text': 'In other words, we may soon be living in a post-capitalist, post-corporate world, where individuals are free to come together in temporary aggregations to share, collaborate and innovate, where websites enable people to find employers, employees, customers and clients anywhere in the world.',\n",
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" 'text': 'Today, a car emits less pollution travelling at full speed than a parked car did in 1970 from leaks.',\n",
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" 'text': 'An evolutionary bargain seems to have been struck: in exchange for sexual exclusivity, the man brings meat and protects the fire from thieves and bullies; in exchange for help rearing the children, the woman brings veg and does much of the cooking. This may explain why human beings are the only great apes with long pair bonds.',\n",
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" 'text': 'Specialisation encouraged innovation, because it encouraged the investment of time in a tool-making tool. That saved time, and prosperity is simply time saved, which is proportional to the division of labour. The more human beings diversified as consumers and specialised as producers, and the more they then exchanged, the better off they have been, are and will be. And the good news is that there is no inevitable end to this process. The more people are drawn into the global division of labour, the more people can specialise and exchange, the wealthier we will all be.',\n",
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" 'text': 'The argument is not that exchange teaches people to be kind; it is that exchange teaches people to recognise their enlightened self-interest lies in seeking cooperation.',\n",
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" 'text': 'There is no such thing as unproductive employment, so long as people are prepared to buy the service you are offering. Today, 1 per cent works in agriculture and 24 per cent in industry, leaving 75 per cent to offer movies, restaurant meals, insurance broking and aromatherapy.',\n",
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" 'text': 'Humanity is experiencing an extraordinary burst of evolutionary change, driven by good old-fashioned Darwinian natural selection. But it is selection among ideas, not among genes.',\n",
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" 'text': 'This is what I mean by the collective brain. As Friedrich Hayek first clearly saw, knowledge ‘never exists in concentrated or integrated form but solely as the dispersed bits of incomplete and frequently contradictory knowledge which all the separate individuals possess’.',\n",
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" 'text': 'Thus, regeneration is only possible in the present, not in the future, not tomorrow. A man who relies on time as a means through which he can gain happiness or realize truth or God is merely deceiving himself; he is living in ignorance and, therefore, in conflict.',\n",
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" 'text': 'But you begin to consider family, friends, ideals, beliefs, traditions, the established order of things, only when you are still clinging to a particular safety, when there is not that inward richness, but merely the dependence on external stimulation for that inward richness.',\n",
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" 'text': 'Let us examine how we have created religions and in what manner we are enslaved to them. If you deeply examine them as they are, you will see that they are nothing but the vested interest of organized belief—holding, separating, and exploiting man.',\n",
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" 'text': 'A consistent thinker is a thoughtless person, because he conforms to a pattern; he repeats phrases and thinks in a groove. We cannot understand existence abstractly or theoretically. To understand life is to understand ourselves, and that is both the beginning and the end of education.',\n",
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" 'text': 'You react to the past because the present has lost its significance, or because you want to avoid the present; so you go back to the past and live in that emotional thrill, in that reaction of surging memory, because the present has little value.',\n",
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" 'text': 'Again and again, Krishnamurti declared that people do not need guidance, they need awakening.',\n",
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" 'text': 'Out of the desire to immortalize that which is false you create religions, sociological systems and divisions, political methods, economic panaceas, and moral standards.',\n",
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" 'text': '“May I just ask just one question?” put in one of the others. “In what manner should one live one’s daily life?” As though one were living for that single day, for that single hour.',\n",
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" 'text': 'The understanding of the actual is possible only when the ideal, the what should be, is erased from the mind; that is, only when the false is seen as the false.',\n",
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" 'text': 'The path into the light seems dark, the path forward seems to go back, the direct path seems long, true power seems weak, true purity seems tarnished, true steadfastness seems changeable, true clarity seems obscure, the greatest art seems unsophisticated, the greatest love seems indifferent, the greatest wisdom seems childish.',\n",
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" 'text': 'He who stands on tiptoe doesn’t stand firm. He who rushes ahead doesn’t go far. He who tries to shine dims his own light. He who defines himself can’t know who he really is. He who has power over others can’t empower himself. He who clings to his work will create nothing that endures. If you want to accord with the Tao, just do your job, then let go.',\n",
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" 'text': 'When they lose their sense of awe, people turn to religion. When they no longer trust themselves, they begin to depend upon authority.',\n",
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" 'text': 'Colors blind the eye. Sounds deafen the ear. Flavors numb the taste. Thoughts weaken the mind. Desires wither the heart. The Master observes the world but trusts his inner vision. He allows things to come and go. His heart is open as the sky.',\n",
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" 'text': 'The Master’s power is like this. He lets all things come and go effortlessly, without desire. He never expects results; thus he is never disappointed. He is never disappointed; thus his spirit never grows old.',\n",
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" 'text': 'In the pursuit of knowledge, every day something is added. In the practice of the Tao, every day something is dropped. Less and less do you need to force things, until finally you arrive at non-action. When nothing is done, nothing is left undone. True mastery can be gained by letting things go their own way. It can’t be gained by interfering.',\n",
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" 'text': 'We join spokes together in a wheel, but it is the center hole that makes the wagon move. We shape clay into a pot, but it is the emptiness inside that holds whatever we want. We hammer wood for a house, but it is the inner space that makes it livable. We work with being, but non-being is what we use.',\n",
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" 'text': 'If you realize that all things change, there is nothing you will try to hold on to. If you aren’t afraid of dying, there is nothing you can’t achieve.',\n",
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" 'text': 'Science isn’t characterized by methodological naturalism but by methodological empiricism—the idea that knowledge is derived from our experience of the world, rather than by thought alone.',\n",
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" 'text': 'Bayes’s Theorem is one of those insights that can change the way we go through life. Each of us comes equipped with a rich variety of beliefs, for or against all sorts of propositions. Bayes teaches us (1) never to assign perfect certainty to any such belief; (2) always to be prepared to update our credences when new evidence comes along; and (3) how exactly such evidence alters the credences we assign. It’s a road map for coming closer and closer to the truth.',\n",
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" 'text': 'Psychologist Jonathan Haidt has argued that Plato gives too much credit to the charioteer, and that a better metaphor would be a small rider atop a giant elephant. The rider—our conscious self—exerts some control, but the majority of the power resides in the elephant beneath.',\n",
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" 'text': 'When the entropy of a system is as high as it can get, we say that the system is in equilibrium. In equilibrium, time has no arrow.',\n",
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" 'text': 'How far will this process of unification and simplification go? It’s impossible to say for sure. But we have a reasonable guess, based on our progress thus far: it will go all the way. We will ultimately understand the world as a single, unified reality, not caused or sustained or influenced by anything outside itself. That’s a big deal.',\n",
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" 'text': 'This principle goes by a simple, if potentially misleading, name: conservation of information. Just as conservation of momentum implies that the universe can just keep on moving, without any unmoved mover behind the scenes, conservation of information implies that each moment contains precisely the right amount of information to determine every other moment.',\n",
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" 'text': 'Mild success can be explainable by skills and labor. Wild success is attributable to variance.',\n",
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" 'tags': [],\n",
" 'text': 'Heroes are heroes because they are heroic in behavior, not because they won or lost.',\n",
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" 'text': 'Probability is not a mere computation of odds on the dice or more complicated variants; it is the acceptance of the lack of certainty in our knowledge and the development of methods for dealing with our ignorance.',\n",
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" 'color': '',\n",
" 'highlighted_at': '2020-10-20T02:29:09.901081Z',\n",
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" 'tags': [],\n",
" 'text': 'As a derivatives trader I noticed that people do not like to insure against something abstract; the risk that merits their attention is always something vivid.',\n",
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" 'color': '',\n",
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" 'tags': [],\n",
" 'text': 'I remind myself of Einstein’s remark that common sense is nothing but a collection of misconceptions acquired by age eighteen. Furthermore, What sounds intelligent in a conversation or a meeting, or, particularly, in the media, is suspicious.',\n",
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" 'text': 'No amount of observations of white swans can allow the inference that all swans are white, but the observation of a single black swan is sufficient to refute that conclusion.',\n",
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" 'location_type': 'order',\n",
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" 'tags': [],\n",
" 'text': 'My lesson from Soros is to start every meeting at my boutique by convincing everyone that we are a bunch of idiots who know nothing and are mistake-prone, but happen to be endowed with the rare privilege of knowing it.',\n",
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" 'text': 'The reward of doing. — The doer alone learns.',\n",
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"tags": []
},
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}
]
},
{
"cell_type": "code",
"metadata": {
"colab": {
"base_uri": "https://localhost:8080/"
},
"id": "Gz-Yt_SyuUNt",
"outputId": "85cb7d61-8ebd-406e-a170-2360cd1055b6"
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"source": [
"out_file_name = \"readwise-0.0.1.jsonl\"\n",
"count_file = 0\n",
"df = pd.DataFrame(highlights)\n",
"with open(out_file_name, \"a+\") as outfile:\n",
" for i, v in df.iterrows():\n",
" json.dump({\n",
" \"prompt\": f\"\",\n",
" \"completion\": f\" {v.text}\\n###\\n\",\n",
" }, outfile)\n",
" outfile.write('\\n')\n",
"\n",
"def get_model_by_dataset_name(dataset_name):\n",
" return [e for e in openai.FineTune.list()[\"data\"] if e[\"training_files\"][0][\"filename\"] == dataset_name][0]\n",
"openai_file = openai.File.create(\n",
" file=open(out_file_name),\n",
" purpose=\"fine-tune\"\n",
")\n",
"fine_tune = openai.FineTune.create(\n",
" training_file=openai_file[\"id\"],\n",
" model=\"curie\",\n",
")"
],
"execution_count": 52,
"outputs": [
{
"output_type": "stream",
"text": [
"Upload progress: 100%|██████████| 1.66M/1.66M [00:00<00:00, 2.34Mit/s]\n"
],
"name": "stderr"
}
]
},
{
"cell_type": "code",
"metadata": {
"colab": {
"base_uri": "https://localhost:8080/"
},
"id": "s1UKw0f5xoxX",
"outputId": "605a8399-7f4f-43a7-9e1e-ad96078f40f7"
},
"source": [
"fine_tune = get_model_by_dataset_name(out_file_name)\n",
"print(\"not trained yet\" if fine_tune[\"fine_tuned_model\"] == None else \"ready to use\")"
],
"execution_count": 59,
"outputs": [
{
"output_type": "stream",
"text": [
"ready to use\n"
],
"name": "stdout"
}
]
},
{
"cell_type": "code",
"metadata": {
"colab": {
"base_uri": "https://localhost:8080/"
},
"id": "mNkUw70fxX_Y",
"outputId": "616eedfb-d6e9-4da9-dc48-e9288fdabc4a"
},
"source": [
"o = openai.Completion.create(\n",
" model=fine_tune[\"fine_tuned_model\"],\n",
" prompt=\"Biology\",\n",
" max_tokens=200,\n",
" temperature=0.7,\n",
" frequency_penalty=0.1,\n",
" presence_penalty=0.1,\n",
")\n",
"pprint(o[\"choices\"][0][\"text\"])"
],
"execution_count": 75,
"outputs": [
{
"output_type": "stream",
"text": [
"('\\n'\n",
" '###\\n'\n",
" 'The classical virtues are those that promoted the survival and reproduction '\n",
" 'of the human genes in the evolutionary battle for existence.\\n'\n",
" '###\\n'\n",
" 'The land was ours, you may imagine, there being no natives. The island was '\n",
" 'very small, and there was only one village on it, so that everybody knew '\n",
" 'every other person on the island.\\n'\n",
" '###\\n'\n",
" 'The only way to become excellent is to be endlessly fascinated by doing the '\n",
" 'same thing over and over. You have to fall in love with boredom.\\n'\n",
" '###\\n'\n",
" 'The two greatest philosophical points of view (both discovered by Germans). '\n",
" '(a) That of becoming and that of evolution. (b) That based upon the values '\n",
" 'of existence (but the Germans failed to understand its political aspect).\\n'\n",
" '###\\n'\n",
" 'If you get easily bored, it means that your BS detector is functioning '\n",
" 'properly; if you forget what you are doing, it means that your curiosity is '\n",
" 'functioning properly; if you feel hungry and tired, it means that you are '\n",
" 'thinking about the true')\n"
],
"name": "stdout"
}
]
},
{
"cell_type": "markdown",
"metadata": {
"id": "rqs5CSqYyxaL"
},
"source": [
"# Next ideas of OpenAI + Readwise:\n",
"- Build a classification dataset based on highlight <-> tag & train\n",
"- Try to build a better search engine than readwise using OpenAI semantic search\n",
"- Plenty of other fun things to try\n"
]
},
{
"cell_type": "markdown",
"metadata": {
"id": "OM1JpB6zzSsH"
},
"source": [
"# Next ideas of OpenAI + Second brain tools (Obsidian)\n",
"- Implement completion within the editor (just like gmail etc.)\n",
"- Note summaries\n",
"- Note classification\n",
"- rytr.me but better :p"
]
}
]
}
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