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“Wealth is the relentless enemy of understanding. The poor man has always a precise view of his problem and its remedy: he hasn't enough and needs more.”
― John Kenneth Galbraith, The Affluent Society

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“The man who wears no socks can acquire things which bestockinged people can never obtain. By saving on socks, one can afford stamps for letters to philosophers throughout the world and get from them the correct interpretation of obscure words in Sanskrit.”
― Halldór Laxness

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“A cast-iron stove overflowing with decoration costs less than a plain one; amidst the surging leaf patterns flaws in the casting cannot be seen.”
― Le Corbusier

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“A lot more sorrow and regret has entered the world on account of corks pulled too late rather than too soon.”
― David Schildknecht, Robert Parker's Wine Advocate 2009

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“The nematode enters the insect's mouth, anus, or spiracle and migrates into the hemocoel. There the nematode injects millions of bacterial symbionts from its own intestine into the insect's circulatory system. These bacteria, though harmless to the nematode, kill the insect within hours.”
― Stephen Jay Gould

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