35 powerful but indisputable facts of life

If you are searching for indisputable facts, I can offer you 35 today that we all learn the hard way.

Formal education is a fine thing and worth having, of course, but nothing is more valuable to us all than what we learn once we enter the big, wide world.

From experience, I have learned that all of what follows are indisputable facts.

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Money is a game, but it’s a game you can learn to play.

Government borrowing is simply a tax on future generations.

Fanatics are never open to reason, and it’s naive to think otherwise.

You never lose friends; you just learn who your real friends are over time.

Fame comes at a price, and that price is the erosion of freedom. Nothing’s for free.

Passively accept the unacceptable, and you’re equally culpable for the consequences.

The life you lead is a direct result of the choices you make. You must learn to make good ones.

We live in an age when indulging people’s delusions takes precedence over what’s in society’s best interests.

To leave a genuine legacy, you must do something from which you will never benefit, but in time others will benefit enormously.

If something is repeated often enough, people will believe it, regardless of whether it’s true. Politicians rely heavily on this phenomenon.

Beware of unintended consequences. Rarely do politicians anticipate them. So, we must, particularly when it comes to investing.

One of life’s greatest ironies is that those people who think of themselves as liberal tend to be the most illiberal people you’ll ever meet.

Some people will never like you no matter how hard you try to please them. It’s a quirk of human existence, so don’t try to rationalize it.

When a politician begins a response to a question with “Let me be clear,” you can be sure everything that follows will be a lot of meaningless guff.

When we fail to participate seriously in the political process, the cost is being governed by halfwits and charlatans. We get the politicians we deserve.

Just because it’s important to you doesn’t mean it’s important to them. Never assume that what matters to you will matter to others. Rarely is that the case.

If you’re hoping that politicians will improve your life, you’re always going to be disappointed. If your life is to improve, you must do the heavy lifting yourself.

Contrary to what they always say, politicians don’t want people well-educated. If people are well-educated and become wise, they cannot be exploited.

None of us knows when the Grim Reaper will come knocking on our door. All we can do is make the most of the time we have, however long it may be. We must enjoy life while we can.

It may be a court of law, but that doesn’t mean it’s a court of justice. These two concepts are not necessarily mutually inclusive, and it would be a mistake to assume otherwise.

When you lose a loved one, you learn to live with your loss, but the hole they leave can never be filled. A piece of your life has gone forever. It’s sad, but it’s the nature of human existence.

The way to peace is through strength. Only a fool would mess with someone they know they shouldn’t mess with. Why would anyone attack someone against whom they know they cannot win?

Political donations are never benign. Donations are made based on an incentive. The provider of a donation does so in anticipation of getting something in return. To believe otherwise is simply naive.

Just because it works for you doesn’t mean it works for other people. Just because you’re doing well out of it financially doesn’t mean others gain too. Your gain may be at their cost.

We’ve lost the ability to laugh at ourselves. Human beings are imperfect creatures, and by laughing at ourselves, we poke fun at our imperfections. These days people take themselves far too seriously.

Nothing you’ll learn in a college or university will ever be as useful to you as what you’ll learn in the University of Life, School of Hard Knocks. Education begins once you leave the formal schooling system.

Accept the unacceptable, and the unacceptable is exactly what you’ll get. If it matters to you, recognize there will be times when you must push back. If people in volume push back, they still have real political power.

Never, ever accept anything any government tells you at face value. If it isn’t an outright lie, it will certainly be intended to mislead, deceive, and manipulate. Politicians don’t deal in facts and the truth. They aim to placate, not enlighten.

There are two groups of people we know we cannot trust, and that is politicians and bankers. They should never be allowed to have any more power over us than is absolutely necessary.

Reality, as it’s presented on television, is usually fake, contrived, or simply carefully disguised propaganda. Question everything. Never accept anything at face value. Politicians and the mainstream media are not on your side.

Offense is taken, not given. So, we have a choice. We can take offense, or we can toughen up and just ignore whatever it is we don’t like. Unless, of course, we’re just grifters looking to exploit an issue to our advantage.

Never underestimate the power of vested interests. If what you’re trying to do works against their interests, they will do everything in their power to ensure that you fail. Remember, if they’re not working with you, they’re working against you.

The role of the mainstream media is not to ensure that you know the truth. Their job is to manipulate you into believing that government-sponsored propaganda and lies are the truth. If your only source of information is the mainstream media, at best you’ll be misinformed.

When politicians are speaking about issues of public concern and, to placate public concern, they say a policy white paper will be issued next year for discussion, you can be sure they have no idea how to deal with the problem, and the aim now is simply to kick the problem into the long grass.

Increasing the tax rate doesn’t mean the government will receive an increased tax take. Tax acts as a disincentive to hard work, enterprise, and investment. So once the tax rate passes a certain point, people give up, don’t invest, or simply move away, and the government ends up with less. Unfortunately, our politicians don’t appear to understand this basic fact of economics.

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