“Morality, it could be argued, represents the way that people would like the world to work, wheareas economics represents how it actually does work.”
― Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
― Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
“We long for things that harm us and run from the things that grow and heal us. We think good is bad and bad is good.”
― Pearl in the Sand
― Pearl in the Sand
“I know it's not clothes that make women beautiful or otherwise, nor beauty care, nor expensive creams, nor the distinction of costliness of their finery. I know the problem lies elsewhere. I don't know where. I only know it isn't where women think.”
― The Lover
― The Lover
“Some of us look for the Way in opium and some in God, some of us in whiskey and some in love. It is all the same Way and it leads nowhither.”
― The Painted Veil
― The Painted Veil
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