Brian Chiger

“For all our penny-wisdom,’” he said, “‘for all our soul-destroying slavery to habit, it is not to be doubted that all men have sublime thoughts.”
― Joshua Ferris, Then We Came to the End

“though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance

“the pain of losing a dollar is far more powerful than the pleasure of winning a dollar.”
― L. Jon Wertheim,

“intrusive government and layer upon layer of regulatory red tape. When”
― Matt Taibbi, Griftopia: Bubble Machines, Vampire Squids, and the Long Con That Is Breaking America