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It is necessary to emphasize how significant this shift in attitude actually was. In the past, pure scientists took a snobbish view of business. They saw the pursuit of money as intellectually uninteresting, suited only to shopkeepers. And
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“The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing.”
― The Soul of Man Under Socialism and Selected Critical Prose
― The Soul of Man Under Socialism and Selected Critical Prose
“Everybody wants to save the Earth; nobody wants to help Mom do the dishes.”
― All the Trouble in the World
― All the Trouble in the World
“Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance. No one in this world, so far as I know—and I have researched the records for years, and employed agents to help me—has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. Nor has anyone ever lost public office thereby.”
― Notes on Democracy
― Notes on Democracy
“The depravity of man is at once the most empirically verifiable reality but at the same time the most intellectually resisted fact.”
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“Life is pain, highness. Anyone who says differently is selling something.”
― Four Screenplays with Essays: Marathon Man - Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid - The Princess Bride - Misery
― Four Screenplays with Essays: Marathon Man - Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid - The Princess Bride - Misery
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