“Work is about a search for daily meaning as well as daily bread, for recognition as well as cash, for astonishment rather than torpor; in short, for a sort of life rather than a Monday through Friday sort of dying.”
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“Basically, I have two speeds.... Hostile or smart-aleck. Your choice.”
― Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports
― Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports
“The majority is never right. Never, I tell you! That's one of these lies in society that no free and intelligent man can help rebelling against. Who are the people that make up the biggest proportion of the population -- the intelligent ones or the fools?”
― An Enemy of the People
― An Enemy of the People
“Of course motivation is not permanent. But then, neither is bathing; but it is something you should do on a regular basis.”
― Raising Positive Kids in a Negative World
― Raising Positive Kids in a Negative World
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