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“Important men became martyrs, unimportant ones victims. The important men were given televised funerals, public days of mourning. Their deaths inspired the creation of art and the destruction of cities. But unimportant men were killed to make the point that they were unimportant — that they were not even men — and the world continued on.”

“This big ok’ world and we only get to go through it once. The saddest thing there is, you ask me.”

“The most violent men were always the most sentimental.”

“Great and grave authors pretend that money is the nerve system of war and the republic…but it seems to me that it would more properly be named the second blood.” - Bernardo Davanzati, 1588

“I am wonderful, I deserve to be wonderful, and I contain multitudes.” Y’all 🥲

"Enslaved people and wage earners shared the condition of being under the control of someone else, a control registered in the surrender of their bodies (and liberties), even if temporarily, for money."

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English dominance would be world transformative, as it reconfigured the three elements described - money, colonization and slaving - on the foundations of an emerging capitalist mode of production.