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“People embrace false magical theories in the hope something good will come out of them. In the most extreme of these, good comes out of them only at the end of this life, in paradise.”

People Ends Theory Embrace Extremes This Life Paradise Good Will

Author:Subhash Kak

“I'm disturbed when people let superstition, magical thinking, extreme conspiracy theories and so on blur their minds.”

People Thinking Mind Theory Extremes Conspiracy Superstitions Disturbed Blur Conspiracy Theory Magical Thinking

Author:John Shirley

“You feel as if you're not living a full life. Which, of course, is why - it's my theory about why so many people who are heavily into computers are also into extreme sports and S&M. It's because their bodies are crying out for some kind of action.”

People Ifs Feels Kind Body Action Courses Sports Cry Theory Computer Extremes Full Life Extreme Sports

Author:Brian Eno

“An aphorism is an extreme synthesis of thesis and antithesis, theory and practice, it's a mixture of intuition and observation, hypothesis and illusions of certainty and probability, history and stupidity.”

Practice Theory Illusion Extremes Intuition Stupidity Observation Certainty Aphorism Probability Hypothesis Mixtures Thesis Synthesis Antithesis Theory And Practice

Author:William C. Brown

“As for me, my literary theory, like my politics, is based chiefly upon one main idea, to wit, the idea of freedom. I am, in brief, a libertarian of the most extreme variety, and know of no human right that is one-tenth as valuable as the simple right to utter what seems (at the moment) to be the truth”

Knows Humans Ideas Moments Seems Simple Theory Extremes Valuable Libertarian Wit Variety Literary Theory

Book:H.L. Mencken's Smart Set Criticism

Source: H.L. Mencken's Smart Set Criticism

“I have a name for people who went to the extreme efficient market theory-which is "bonkers". It was an intellectually consistent theory that enabled them to do pretty mathematics. So I understand its seductiveness to people with large mathematical gifts. It just had a difficulty in that the fundamental assumption did not tie properly to reality.”

People Reality Names Theory Difficulty Mathematics Fundamentals Extremes Mathematical Ties Assumption Consistent Efficient Efficient Markets

Author:Charlie Munger

“I have concluded that most PhD economists under appraise the power of the common-stock-based "wealth effect," under current extreme conditions... "Wealth effects" involve mathematical puzzles that are not nearly so well worked out as physics theories and never can be... What has happened in Japan over roughly the last ten years has shaken up academic economics, as it obviously should, creating strong worries about recession from "wealth effects" in reverse.”

“We have no intention of abandoning the American people to unproven theories and extreme positions. We're the people party and we're going to stick up for the people.”

People Party Position Theory Sticks Intention Extremes

Book:Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States, William J. Clinton, 1995, Bk. 1, January 1 to June 30, 1995

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States, William J. Clinton, 1995, Bk. 1, January 1 to June 30, 1995

“As often as Herman had witnessed the slaughter of animals and fish, he always had the same thought: in their behaviour toward creatures, all men were Nazis. The smugness with which man could do with other species as he pleased exemplified the most extreme racist theories, the principle that might is right.”

“The IMF economists were doubtless shaken by the extreme failures of their prescriptions over many years, and by the collapse of the intellectual edifice of economic theory on which they were relying.”

Years Economic Theory Intellectual Extremes Collapse Economist Prescriptions Edifice Economic Theory Imf

Author:Noam Chomsky