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Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
“Tiger got to hunt, bird got to fly;
Man got to sit and wonder 'why, why, why?'
Tiger got to sleep, bird got to land;
Man got to tell himself he understand.”
Kurt Vonnegut, Cat’s Cradle

“In need of a Copernican revolution, we've been busy refining the Ptolemaic model of heavens.”
Emmanuel Saez, The Triumph of Injustice: How the Rich Dodge Taxes and How to Make Them Pay

Gary  Stevenson
“Tax work less. Tax wealth more.”
Gary Stevenson

Rutger Bregman
“Civilisation has become synonymous with peace and progress, and wilderness with war and decline. In reality, for most of human existence, it was the other way around.”
Rutger Bregman, Humankind: A Hopeful History – from the presenter of the 2025 BBC ‘Moral Revolution’ Reith lectures

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
“The Fourteenth Book is entitled, "What can a Thoughtful Man Hope for Mankind on Earth, Given the Experience of the Past Million Years?"
It doesn't take long to read The Fourteenth Book. It consists of one word and a period.
This is it: "Nothing.”
Kurt Vonnegut, Cat’s Cradle

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