VIA NEGATIVA- The comparative benefits of via negativa in medicine, similar to other domains: removal of tobacco, sugar, regular food by fasting, car, pollution, industrial foods, gym machines, personal trainer, boss, NYT compared to additive therapies typically pharmacological. The relative ratio inverses when it comes to decision-making by the establishment —this picture is identical to Figure x concerning the relative role of knowledge, heuristics, and theories.

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According to Bar Hebraeus (Ibn Al-Ibri) Plato was asked, “Why are not wisdom and anger found together?” And he replied, “Because no man can be found who is perfect in everything.”

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Working hard to get tenure, citations, or a Nobel is downright prostitution of knowledge; but working hard to become a multi millionaire is not a prostitution of business.

(Explains partly why business is purer than academia.)

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So rare and so superb to combine strength with wisdom, justice with ambition, and prudence with passion.Stoic ethics

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Most people are better at starting than ending a conversation; it is a rare skill, even among writers, to know how to finish.

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