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“As Yeo wrote, “Money is a required pursuit for life, but a pointless pursuit upon death.”[”
― The Wealth Ladder: Proven Strategies for Every Step of Your Financial Life
― The Wealth Ladder: Proven Strategies for Every Step of Your Financial Life
“Honestly, have you ever seen a fat ninety-year-old?”
― What This Comedian Said Will Shock You
― What This Comedian Said Will Shock You
“The mob is always in favour of the prosecution, for the prosecution is giving the show.”
― Notes on Democracy
― Notes on Democracy
“The real-world experiments of comparing socialist-communist countries and capitalist ones have been repeated on countless occasions, and the data could not be any clearer that socialist-communist societies produce poverty and misery and capitalist societies produce prosperity and happiness.”
― The Saad Truth about Happiness: 8 Secrets for Leading the Good Life
― The Saad Truth about Happiness: 8 Secrets for Leading the Good Life
“The tendency to create powerful things with unintended consequences started not with the invention of the steam engine or AI but with the invention of religion. Prophets and theologians have summoned powerful spirits that were supposed to bring love and joy but occasionally ended up flooding the world with blood.”
― Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI
― Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI
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