Month: November 2021

The nature of illusion is that it’s designed to make you feel good. About yourself, about your country, about where you’re going – in that sense it functions like a drug. Those who question that illusion are challenged not so much for the veracity of what they say, but for puncturing those feelings.

– Chris Hedges

When you’re right about something, don’t get off the train…I think it might have been Peter Lynch who talked about that — that human tendency to want to, you know, sell your winner — pulling the flowers and watering the weeds.

– Tom Gayner