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Consider the world-outlooks of Eskimos, Polynesians, Bedouins, Belgian businessmen, Pueblo Indians, and Tibetans. Not a whole lot in common there. Pretty alien to one another, matter of fact, and all native to the same planet.
Why were Belgian Businessmen brought up as an example of a unusual culture?
“If you accomplish something good with hard work, the labour passes quickly, but the good endures; if you do something shameful in pursuit of pleasure, the pleasure passes quickly, but the shame endures.” – Musonius Rufus”
― The Stoic Body: An Ancient Twist To Modern Health
― The Stoic Body: An Ancient Twist To Modern Health
“Speech is aggression Every utterance has a winner and a loser Curiosity is feigned Lying is performative Stupidity is power”
― Fall; or, Dodge in Hell
― Fall; or, Dodge in Hell
“Be here now.”
― Be Here Now
― Be Here Now
“Not always a big difference between goons and cops in Russia,” Mitya says. “The likes of Alex can hire cops just as easily as they can hire goons, and it’s worth having a few on the payroll.”
― Human++
― Human++
“The thought of what America would be like
If the Classics had a wide circulation
Troubles my sleep (Cantico del Sole)”
― Selected Poems of Ezra Pound
If the Classics had a wide circulation
Troubles my sleep (Cantico del Sole)”
― Selected Poems of Ezra Pound
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