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The investing world is full of 'smart' people. But intelligence is not the limiting factor. The limiting factor is temperament. You need the temperament to be able to think and act independently.
— Charlie Munger, Berkshire Hathaway Annual Meeting (2009)

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The great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.

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How Should You Live Your Life: Marie Howe’s Spare, Stunning Poem “The Maples”

Perhaps the sharpest, most recurrent shock of being alive is the realization that no one can give you a ready-made answer — not your parents or your teachers, not scripture or Stoicism, not psychotherapy or psilocybin, not the old dharma teacher or the new pope.

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