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“Nothing that liberals have done over the years to redistribute income from the haves to the have-less comes anywhere near this tectonic shift of the distribution of income from “labor” to “capital.”32”
― Moral Capitalism: Why Fairness Won't Make Us Poor
― Moral Capitalism: Why Fairness Won't Make Us Poor
“I see no reason for resigning my right to that inventive freedom which others enjoy; and, as I have no truth to put on record, having lived a very humdrum life, I fall back on falsehood--but falsehood of a more consistent variety; for I now make the only true statement you are to expect--that I am a liar.”
― True History and Lucius or The Ass
― True History and Lucius or The Ass
“Freedom is what we do with what is done to us.”
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“A humanist has four leading characteristics - curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race.”
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“Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the overcompensations for misery. And, of course, stability isn't nearly so spectacular as instability. And being contented has none of the glamour of a good fight against misfortune, none of the picturesqueness of a struggle with temptation, or a fatal overthrow by passion or doubt. Happiness is never grand.”
― Brave New World
― Brave New World
Joel’s 2025 Year in Books
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