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Here you think that the incentive to work is finances, need for money or desire for profit, but where there’s no money the real motives are clearer, maybe. People like to do things. They like to do them well.
“Honestly, if you're given the choice between Armageddon or tea, you don't say 'what kind of tea?”
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“There is hardly anything in the world that someone cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper. It is unwise to pay too much, but it is also unwise to pay too little. When you pay too much, you only lose a little money, that is all. When you pay too little, you sometimes lose every thing because the thing you bought is incapable of doing the thing you bought it to do. If you deal with the lowest bidder it is well to add something for the risk you run. And if you do that you will have enough to pay for something better.”
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“Te occidere possunt sed te edere non possunt nefas est." (Roughly, "They can kill you, but the legalities of eating you are quite a bit dicier.")”
― Infinite Jest
― Infinite Jest
“Family history, of course, has its proper dietary laws. One is supposed to swallow and digest only the permitted parts of it, the halal portions of the past, drained of their redness, their blood. Unfortunately, this makes the stories less juicy...”
― Midnight’s Children
― Midnight’s Children
Classics Book Club
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A book club for those of us who want to read/re-read all of the classics.
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