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The mechanism seems simple: poor people are forced to share their time and resources more than wealthy people are, and as a result they live in closer communities.
“Wisdom is knowing I am nothing,
Love is knowing I am everything,
and between the two my life moves.”
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Love is knowing I am everything,
and between the two my life moves.”
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“The heaviest penalty for declining to rule is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.”
― The Republic
― The Republic
“People speak sometimes about the "bestial" cruelty of man, but that is terribly unjust and offensive to beasts, no animal could ever be so cruel as a man, so artfully, so artistically cruel.”
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“Nothing is so necessary for a young man as the company of intelligent women.”
― War and Peace
― War and Peace
“A man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose denominator is what he thinks of himself. The larger the denominator, the smaller the fraction.”
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