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“Now imagine one day hyperinflation strikes, and the price of your ribeye increases to one hundred dollars while your daily wage remains ten dollars. What happens to the price of your basket of goods? It cannot rise tenfold because you cannot afford the one-hundred-dollar ribeye. Instead, you make do with the chemical shitstorm that is a soy burger for ten dollars. The CPI, magically, shows zero inflation.”
― Saifedean Ammous, The Fiat Standard: Debt Slavery Alternative to Human Civilization

“Unsurprisingly, these [university] departments are heavily populated with semiliterate
intellectual midgets of the Marxist variety, as that ideology is perfectly
conducive to the furthering of government power and the anointing of a
parasitic, unproductive class to control the lives of the productive.”
― Saifedean Ammous, The Fiat Standard: Debt Slavery Alternative to Human Civilization

“There are no dangerous weapons; there are only dangerous men.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, Starship Troopers

“obscurity is usually the refuge of incompetence”
― Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land

“An apostate scientist, a kidnapped scientist, a dull peasant, a two-headed monster, an apple-brained moron -- five knives, counting Joe-Jim as one; five brains, counting Joe-Jim as two and Bobo as none -- five brains and five knives to overthrow an entire culture.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, Orphans of the Sky

“When it comes to climate justice, democracy knows no borders.”
― Greta Thunberg, The Climate Book: The Facts and the Solutions

“Throughout the ages, currencies have ceased to exist because of one rudimentary fact: governments are unable to resist the temptation to create free money for themselves.”
― Nik Bhatia, Layered Money: From Gold and Dollars to Bitcoin and Central Bank Digital Currencies

“Most scientific research today is funded by governments. To justify this research, the officials running the government must believe that the research has value to voters or to their own agendas.”
― Alex Epstein, Fossil Future: : Why Global Human Flourishing Requires More Oil, Coal, and Natural Gas--Not Less

“To call something crazy is to confess that one doesn't understand it.”
― Michael Malice, The New Right: A Journey to the Fringe of American Politics

“On top of the dashboard are three dials in a raised binnacle. They tell you nothing you need to know but they look good. They look sporty. They tell you that you are a man in a hurry, but here's hoping you aren't, because this is not a fast car.”
― Jeremy Clarkson, Really?

“There are many models in the current range, and if you ask a 911 enthusiast to talk you through the subtle differences between each, you can be sure that by the end of the conversation one of you will be dead.”
― Jeremy Clarkson, Really?

“Gold standard caps inflation. If dollars are printed too quickly one can convert gold to pounds to dollars and back to gold again to make profit until the markets adjust back down. Friedman argues that gold standard hampers a government's ability to wage war. But is that a bad thing?”
― Robert P. Murphy, Choice: Cooperation, Enterprise, and Human Action

“Pick one. A theocracy ruled by witchburners. Or a fascist socialism designed by schoolboys. Or a crowd of hard-boiled pragmatists who favor shooting the horse that misses the hurdle. Step right up! Only one to a customer.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, Friday

“all public employees have larceny in their hearts or they wouldn’t be feeding at the public trough”
― Robert A. Heinlein, Friday

“A public employee, having no self-respect, needs and demands a show of public respect.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, Friday

“noise is always a byproduct of inefficiency. A correctly
designed engine is as silent as the grave.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, Job: A Comedy of Justice

“Judge not your neighbour's creation, as you know not under what circumstances they were created. And as we exploit the creations of those less fortunate than us, those that were forced to work under conditions of shipping deadlines or unreasonable managers, we give thanks to their humble offering of naive security implications.”
― Manul Laphroaig, The Book of PoC||GTFO

“Colin Chapman summed up his philosophy thus: 'Simplify and add lightness.' Mind you, he also said, 'You would never catch me driving a race car that I have built.' Which probably explains why Lotus came to be known as an acronym for Lots Of Trouble, Usually Serious.”
― Jeremy Clarkson, I Know You Got Soul: Machines with That Certain Something

“the CIA's practice of sending narratives into foreign markets, knowing full well that they would find their way back into the domestic population, was revealed during the Church Committee hearings as a tactic to evade laws on propagandising the public.”
― Matthew Alford, National Security Cinema: The Shocking New Evidence of Government Control in Hollywood

“We need to be aware that when we insist, as part of foreign aid packages, that the developing world align with our climate priorities, we are enacting a kind of imperialism.”
― Bjørn Lomborg, False Alarm: How Climate Change Panic Costs Us Trillions, Hurts the Poor, and Fails to Fix the Planet

“I have a ship with guns on it now, and the next time someone orders me to do something, I’m using them.”
― James S.A. Corey, Leviathan Wakes

“My love is a pure love,” Alex said with a grin. “I wouldn’t sully it by actually, you know, doin’ anything about it.” “The kind poets write about, then.”
― James S.A. Corey, Caliban's War

“Holden’s an idiot, but he’s not stupid. If he realizes he’s being watched, he’ll start broadcasting pictures of all our Ganymede sources or something. Do not underestimate his capacity to fuck things up.”
― James S.A. Corey, Caliban’s War

“That’s the kind of stealing only governments can get away with,” Amos said.”
― James S.A. Corey, Abaddon's Gate

“We don’t want to get in a gunfight,” Holden warned Amos as they began moving again. “Yeah,” Amos said. “But if we’re in one anyway, it’ll be nice to have guns.”
― James S.A. Corey, Abaddon's Gate

“Epithets like that are an attempt to dehumanize a group so that you won't feel as bad about killing them.”
― James S.A. Corey, Abaddon’s Gate

“You’ll be flying along when it will suddenly ‘burp’, ejecting air not from the back but from the front. This is bad news, because all of a sudden you have full thrust from one side of the plane and full drag from the other. The result is a spin, and the result of that is a quiet and undignified end for the two men on board. Quiet because the crash won’t be reported – how can a plane crash if it officially ‘doesn’t exist’? – and undignified because when you hit the ground in an SR-71 they don’t bury the remains so much as hose them into the nearest drain.”
― Jeremy Clarkson, I Know You Got Soul: Machines with That Certain Something

“What happened next is perhaps one of my favorite Angela stories ever. Still a little stung by our Ivy experience, Angela was determined to salvage a “star” moment for us. She coyly said to the photographer, “Do you know who she is? She’s Pam from The Office.” He looked at us blankly. Angela then motioned to the group. “We are the ladies of The Office.” Still nothing. Angela pushed harder. “On NBC. The Office. On NBC.” Finally, the guy’s face lit up. “Are you serious?!” But he didn’t raise his camera. Instead, he reached into his pocket and produced a business card. He said, “Here’s my card. If you ever want to tip me off on when celebrities will be out and about, I’ll give you a finder’s fee.” It took us a minute until we all collectively realized that he thought we worked IN AN OFFICE at NBC. OMG. We died.”
― Jenna Fischer, The Office BFFs: Tales of The Office from Two Best Friends Who Were There

“If you look closely at episodes during Season 1, you can see her writing checks. I used to worry someone would pause their TV, zoom in, and steal her account and routing numbers. (This probably isn’t possible, but that’s how my brain works. I have a little Dwight in me. That’s what she said.)”
― Jenna Fischer, The Office BFFs: Tales of The Office from Two Best Friends Who Were There

“There are thousands of Kantoreks, all of whom are convinced that they were acting for the best—in a way that cost them nothing.”
― Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front