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The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

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high over the city our line of yellow windows must have contributed their share of human secrecy to the casual watcher in the darkening streets, and I was him too, looking up and wondering. I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted ...more

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“in the future, one of the milestones by which you measure your financial success will be not just now many zeroes you can add to your net worth, but whether you can structure your affairs in a way that enables you to realize full individual autonomy and independence.”
― James Dale Davidson, The Sovereign Individual: Mastering the Transition to the Information Age

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“An eruption of microparasites, such as a viral pandemic, rather than drastic changes in climate or topography, would more likely disrupt the megapolitical predominance of technology.”
― James Dale Davidson, The Sovereign Individual: Mastering the Transition to the Information Age

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“The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born: now is the time of monsters.”
― Antonio Gramsci

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“Even the best national currency of the postwar period, the German mark, lost 71 percent of its value from January 1, 1949, through the end of June 1995. In the same period, the U.S. dollar lost 84 percent of its value.9 This inflation had the same effect as a tax on all who hold the currency.”
― James Dale Davidson, The Sovereign Individual: Mastering the Transition to the Information Age

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“Desde que existe el mundo y los hombres se matan unos a otros, nunca un hombre, después de cometer un crimen contra un prójimo, ha dejado de tranquilizarse con esa misma idea. Es la idea de «le bien public», el bien de los demás hombres.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Guerra y Paz - Volumen 2

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