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“Thomas Edison is suing me for one billion dollars.”
Where do numbers like this come from? What if Westinghouse isn’t worth it?
“If the reader thinks he is done, now, and that this book has no moral to it, he is in error. The moral of it is this: If you are of any account, stay at home and make your way by faithful diligence; but if you are "no account," go away from home, and then you will *have* to work, whether you want to or not. Thus you become a blessing to your friends by ceasing to be a nuisance to them - if the people you go among suffer by the operation.”
― Roughing It
― Roughing It
“In Sweden, self-sufficiency and autonomy is all; [interpersonal] debt of any kind, be it emotional, a favor, or cash, is to be avoided at all cost. The Swedes don't even like to owe a round of drinks.”
― The Almost Nearly Perfect People: Behind the Myth of the Scandinavian Utopia
― The Almost Nearly Perfect People: Behind the Myth of the Scandinavian Utopia
“Some might argue that the reality of Nordic autonomy is that you are free ... to be Nordic. If you are a Muslim who is looking to build a mosque, or an American who wants to drive a large car, espouse your deeply held Creationist beliefs, and go shopping with your platinum card on Sunday, or even if you are English and choose to conduct yourself according to archaic forms of baroque politeness, you are likely to experience varying degrees of oppression and exclusion should you come to live in this part of the world. This is true.”
― The Almost Nearly Perfect People: Behind the Myth of the Scandinavian Utopia
― The Almost Nearly Perfect People: Behind the Myth of the Scandinavian Utopia
“You can all go to hell; I will go to Texas”
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“It was a splendid population - for all the slow, sleepy, sluggish-brained sloths stayed at home - you never find that sort of people among pioneers - you cannot build pioneers out of that sort of material. It was that population that gave to California a name for getting up astounding enterprises and rushing them through with a magnificent dash and daring and a recklessness of cost or consequences, which she bears unto this day - and when she projects a new surprise the grave world smiles as usual and says, "Well, that is California all over.”
― Roughing It
― Roughing It
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