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#32"What you mistaken for your Confidence is Arrogance, or at best, Ignorance."
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#33"Do not take Stelara if you are allergic to Stelara" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ZzRAGeXtgU&t=0m31s
Hulu has been showing me this stupid commercial during almost every show I've watched for almost a month, and that line bugs me every time!
Don't forget the ending, "Do not take Stelara if you are allergic to Stelara or any of its ingredients."
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#34"The less confident you are, the more serious you have to act." I feel many investors or even people in general misinterpret being relaxed and non-intense (vs. being serious) as someone who's not passionate or uninterested or not a go-getter. It's been reoccurring to get advice of the nature that you have to wow people with a high-intensity pitch in order to win investors over, though that feels completely wrong to m…
Unfortunately this is not a problem limited to VCs. It is everywhere apparent. Confidence, imo, is one of the top five worst words of this decade. "Girls like confident men," "Boss wants a confident problem solver," "the coach wants a confident lead player."
To my kids, I will teach Courage, instead.
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#35My favorite: "A witty saying proves nothing." - Voltaire
But "If Truth was self evident, Eloquence would not be needed."
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#36My favorite: "A witty saying proves nothing." - Voltaire
"But it moves something."
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#37Can someone explain me this one :
Arrogance "The condition of man is already close to satiety and arrogance, and there is danger of destruction of everything in existence."
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#38Anyone else surprised by this collection? I thought they'd be better.
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#39Can someone explain me this one : Arrogance "The condition of man is already close to satiety and arrogance, and there is danger of destruction of everything in existence."
It's an observation of metastasized hubris [1].
Normally an individual with overweening pride got smote down by the gods with some, but limited, collateral damage.
But what happens when the whole nation ("the condition of man") forgets Providence and deems herself hubristically self-sufficient ("satiety and arrogance")?
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#40Those are all very interesting, but I wish Paul had not included the quote from the crusaders. I am not sure what the point of including this quote was. It is quite possible that the crusaders did not get the best impression from the greeks, but considering that the crusaders raped and pillaged as they traveled through Greece, one may understand why the greeks did not treat them very well. Any quote from the crusader…
For me, I think it was just cleverly stated. Considering that the quote is an attribution of an attribution, we can't think PG, or even the source PG is quoting, actually believed such things about the Greeks.