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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;mikenoodle, post: 758801, member: 307&quot;]Bowers&#039; advice still holds true today. To put it in more modern terms, it means to do research and have an idea what you&#039;re buying BEFORE you spend any money on something.</p><p><br /></p><p>It was not a tagline to sell books, it was the age-old advice to look before you leap.</p><p><br /></p><p>That said, what has been said more than a few times on CT is that you may ask all of the questions that you like, but it behooves you to search, read, and know a little something as well beforehand. There are many people here who claim to have deep knowledge of multiple subjects when truth is, they don&#039;t really know anything. If you listen to them long enough it becomes rather apparent, but if <b>you</b> also know nothing, then you can&#039;t tell the pretenders from the geniuses. You can make even bigger mistakes than had you struck out on your own by listening to bad or misguided advice.</p><p><br /></p><p>At least with published works, you can <i>tend</i> to rely on their information more because on the whole it is much better researched and founded in truth or real knowledge.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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