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“[T]hink of love as a state of grace: not the means to anything but the alpha and omega, an end in itself.”
― Love in the Time of Cholera
― Love in the Time of Cholera
“War doesn't negate decency. It demands it, even more than in times of peace." - Baba”
― The Kite Runner
― The Kite Runner
“We should do away with the absolutely specious notion that everybody has to earn a living. It is a fact today that one in ten thousand of us can make a technological breakthrough capable of supporting all the rest. The youth of today are absolutely right in recognizing this nonsense of earning a living. We keep inventing jobs because of this false idea that everybody has to be employed at some kind of drudgery because, according to Malthusian Darwinian theory he must justify his right to exist. So we have inspectors of inspectors and people making instruments for inspectors to inspect inspectors. The true business of people should be to go back to school and think about whatever it was they were thinking about before somebody came along and told them they had to earn a living.”
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“Freiheit ist immer die Freiheit des Andersdenkenden
Freedom is always, and exclusively, freedom for the one who thinks differently.”
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Freedom is always, and exclusively, freedom for the one who thinks differently.”
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“wisdom comes to us when it can no longer do any good.”
― Love in the Time of Cholera
― Love in the Time of Cholera
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