Rational men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any influences, are usually the intellectual slaves of some defunct advertising man.
Guy HAS FINISHED WRITING THE BOOK (BETA)x.comRational men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any influences, are usually the intellectual slaves of some defunct advertising man.
If there is one thing the advent of social media has brought home to us, it is how little we think for ourselves.
Ian Leslie • How To Be Influenced
The Philosophical Approach Keynes said “Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influences, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist.” Meaning, if you don’t know what intellectual software you’re running, you’re probably running it unconsciously.
Balaji Srinivasan • The Network State: How To Start a New Country
People who are a little more hard-headed, humorous, and intellectually independent, see the rather simple joke; and are not impressed by this or any other form of self-praise. Almost any other men in almost any other age would have seen the joke. If you had said to a man in the Stone Age, 'Ugg says Ugg makes the best stone hatchets,' he would have
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