“A Home without Equity Is Just a Rental with Debt,”
― The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine
― The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine
“The worth of a cause is not necessarily proportional to the lengths to which people will go to promote it.”
― The Wilder Shores of Marx: Journeys in a Vanishing World
― The Wilder Shores of Marx: Journeys in a Vanishing World
“I've heard a hundred different variations of instances of unadulterated female victimhood, yet the silence of the feminists is deafening. Where two pieties--feminism and multi-culturalism--come into conflict, the only way of preserving both is an indecent silence.”
― Our Culture, What's Left of It: The Mandarins and the Masses
― Our Culture, What's Left of It: The Mandarins and the Masses
“A thought crossed his mind: How do you make poor people feel wealthy when wages are stagnant? You give them cheap loans.”
― The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine
― The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine
“No one seems to have noticed that a loss of a sense of shame means a loss of privacy; a loss of privacy means a loss of intimacy; and a loss of intimacy means a loss of depth. There is, in fact, no better way to produce shallow and superficial people than to let them live their lives entirely in the open, without concealment of anything.”
― Our Culture, What's Left of It: The Mandarins and the Masses
― Our Culture, What's Left of It: The Mandarins and the Masses
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