La imaginación es el arma más poderosa contra la realidad.

The Langlands program is a testament to the power of abstract thought in mathematics.

You invest in the divinity of the masterpiece.

And we also suck in messages from everything from the television, to advertising, to marketing, etc. These are hugely powerful forces that define what we want and how we view ourselves. When we're told that banking is a very respectable profession, a lot of us want to go into banking. When banking is no longer so respectable, we lose interest in banking. We are highly open to suggestion.

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