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“Adventure is just bad planning.”
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“Now he was proving it again. Each time was a new time and he never thought about the past when he was doing it.”
― The Old Man and the Sea
― The Old Man and the Sea
“Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.”
― Brave New World
― Brave New World
“Love...no such thing.
Whatever it is that binds families and married couples together, that's not love. That's stupidity or selfishness or fear. Love doesn't exist.
Self interest exists, attachment based on personal gain exists, complacency exists. But not love. Love has to be reinvented, that’s certain.”
― A Season in Hell and The Drunken Boat
Whatever it is that binds families and married couples together, that's not love. That's stupidity or selfishness or fear. Love doesn't exist.
Self interest exists, attachment based on personal gain exists, complacency exists. But not love. Love has to be reinvented, that’s certain.”
― A Season in Hell and The Drunken Boat
“The great virtue of a free market system is that it does not care what color people are; it does not care what their religion is; it only cares whether they can produce something you want to buy. It is the most effective system we have discovered to enable people who hate one another to deal with one another and help one another.”
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