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“What a uniquely capitalist response to that gender inequality: women have been forced by convention for generations – millennia – to spend money on expensive clothes and agonising shoes, to daub themselves with reality-concealing slap, to smell expensively inhuman, to self-mutilate in pursuit of eternal youth; and this, quite rightly, has come to be deemed unfair. But how do we end this hell? We make men do it too. Well done everyone.”
― David Mitchell, Back Story

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“The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods

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“It is obvious that the only interesting people are interested people, and to be completely interested is to have forgotten about “I.”
― Alan W. Watts, The Wisdom of Insecurity

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“For example, there is an old grammarian’s saw about how a sentence can end in five prepositions. Daddy trudges upstairs to Junior’s bedroom to read him a bedtime story. Junior spots the book, scowls, and asks, “Daddy, what did you bring that book that I don’t want to be read to out of up for?”
― Steven Pinker, The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language

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“expectation rather than the reality of the present is the special trouble of those business men who live entirely to make money. So many people of wealth understand much more about making and saving money than about using and enjoying it. They fail to live because they are always preparing to live. Instead of earning a living they are mostly earning an earning, and thus when the time comes to relax they are unable to do so. Many a “successful” man is bored and miserable when he retires, and returns to his work only to prevent a younger man from taking his place.”
― Alan W. Watts, The Wisdom of Insecurity

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