30 April 2009
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My take on the commodity supercycle and stock market zeitgeist...and the new era of precious metals, uranium (just bottoming, btw)and alternate energy. As I have said here since 2005 "Get ready for peak everything, the repricing of the planet and "black swan" markets all over the place".
No man is free who is not master of himself.
A ship should not ride on a single anchor, nor life on a single hope.
Fortify thyself with contentment: that is an impregnable stronghold.
If you desire great things, do not attempt to lay hold of them with little effort; but give up some things entirely, and postpone others for the present.
Epictetus
The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile.
Plato
“The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.”
George Orwell
Any one who thinks, and is determined to let nothing stop him from thinking, is a philosopher . . .
R. G. Collingwood ~An Essay on Philosophical Method, 15.
Civilisation came through two things chiefly: the home, which developed those social dispositions that form the psychological cement of society; and agriculture..... But it was woman who gave man agriculture and the home; she domesticated man as she had domesticated the sheep and the pig. Man is woman's last domestic animal, and ....the last creature that will be civilised by woman. The task is just begun.
Will Durant
Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.
Victor Hugo
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