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“Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.”
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“God is a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh.”
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“It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.”
― The Age of Louis XIV
― The Age of Louis XIV
“Poverty is fundamentally about a lack of cash. It’s not about stupidity,” stresses”
― Utopia for Realists: The Case for a Universal Basic Income, Open Borders, and a 15-hour Workweek
― Utopia for Realists: The Case for a Universal Basic Income, Open Borders, and a 15-hour Workweek
“I have wanted to kill myself a hundred times, but somehow I am still in love with life. This ridiculous weakness is perhaps one of our more stupid melancholy propensities, for is there anything more stupid than to be eager to go on carrying a burden which one would gladly throw away, to loathe one’s very being and yet to hold it fast, to fondle the snake that devours us until it has eaten our hearts away?”
― Candide, or, Optimism
― Candide, or, Optimism
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