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* "You say human life is sacred? From what evidence? Where in history? The wars that have killed millions are endorsed by all governments and religions.
The massacres of thousands of enemies in a political dispute, over economic interests, are recorded through time.
How many times has the earning of money been placed above the sanctity of human life?
And you yourself condone the taking of a human life when client off

"Always remember that," he told Cully.
"Everything you do in life use percentage as your god."

"I extinguished my grief and my reason and put my sins forward as my shield.
I would sin, beware and live forever."

"Only those we most love can cause our death, and only of them we must beware.
Our enemies can never harm us.
And at the core of my brother's virtue was that he feared neither his enemies nor those he loved.
So much the worst for him.
Virtue is its own reward and fools are they who die."

"He was teed off at me for bringing it all on."

"That's when Osano's luck turned bad, though he could still have bailed out if it hadn't been for his ego."

"He finished the essay bytes congratulating the rulers of America for having the ingenuity to give their lower classes a license to steal and kill so that they would not become political revolutionists."

"Never treat a woman too good.
Women stick with drunks, gamblers, whoremasters and even beater-uppers.
They can't stand a sweet, good guy. Do you know why?
They get bored.
They don't want to be happy. It's boring."

"Women will fuck anybody, anytime, anyplace, except that they're afraid of talk."

"Listen, kid," he said, "love is like the little red toy wagon you get for Christmas or your sixth birthday.
It makes you deliriously happy and you just can't leave it alone.
But sooner or later the wheels come off.
Then you leave it in a corner and forget it.
Falling in love is great. Being in love is a disaster."

Once as an adolescent, beset with guilt and feelings of unworthiness, hopelessly at odds with the world, I stumbled across the Dostoevsky novel The Brothers Karamazov. That book changed my life. It gave me strength. It made me see the vulnerable beauty of all people no matter how despicable they might outwardly seem. And I always remembered the day I finally gave up the book, took it back to the asylum library and ..

"I read novels. Dumas and Dickens and Sabatini, Hemingway, Fitzgerald and later on Joyce and Kafka and Dostoevsky."

"He understood now about her emotional blankness, her apparent lack of any moral values."
- I can add to this: Like every prostitute and almost every woman.

For those who suffered poverty, gold could always work more miracles than prayer.

"The Baglioni are true bellevers," he said. "They believe in paradise.
Such a great gift. How otherwise can man bear this mortal life?
Unfortunately, such a belief also gives evil men the courage to commit great crimes in the name of good and God."

There, in order to master the physical world, the more philosophically inclined tried to uncover the secrets of existence and to unravel Life's great mysteries, while the poor hoped only to overcome their suffering.

There was a distraction.
One of the girls was sticking a finger up his ass and that always annoyed him.
He had hemorrhoids.

When you killed a man, you merely separated him from this world so that he could do you no harm.

You must beware of two things.
Number one and most dangerous: the damsel in distress.
Two: a woman who has more ambition than you do.

Never show anger at a slight, tell nothing of yourself.
Earn respect from everyone by deeds, not words.
Respect the members of your blood family.
Gambling was recreation, not a way to earn a living.
Love your father, your mother, your sister, but beware of loving any other woman than your wife.
And a wife was a woman who bore your children.
And once ... your life was forfeit to give them their daily bread.

He sent spies to the barbershop to lounge around all day and play cards with Frisella at the little table he kept out on the street.
They drank wine, talked politics and shouted insults at friends who passed by.

But Guiliano was thinking how the poor were always deceived, even by those who pointed the road to salvation.
It was another important fact to remember.

And these degrees were of the utmost importance.
How else would families get rid of sons who had no ambition, no talent, no intelligence?
Parents would have to support sons the rest of their lives.
But with degrees, slips of parchment from the University, these same rascals could become teachers, doctors, members of Parliament, or if worse came to worst, minor administrative functionaries of the state.

The Yap Island chiefs who refused O'Keefe's
cheap Rai stones understood what most modern economists fail to grasp: a
money that is easy to produce is no money at all, and easy money does not
make a society richer; on the contrary, it makes it poorer by placing all its
hard‐earned wealth for sale in exchange for something easy to produce.

защитное поле погасло. С неистовым воем «мстители»
устремились к чете обнявшихся землян. Низкий, непередаваемо
грозный рык инфразвука остановил, отбросил, разметал передние
ряды, но задние напирали, давя упавших. Тор Лик включил всю силу
заряда: закувыркались, попадали фигуры, с воплями поползли прочь,
но не ушли: колоссальная башня рухнула неотвратимо, погребая
землян и нападавших и засыпая древние могилы.

Самые деспотические режимы подолгу существовали
там, где женщины были наиболее угнетены и безответны: в
мусульманских странах древнего мира, в Китае и Африке. Везде, где
женщины были превращены в рабочую скотину, воспитанные ими
дети оказывались невежественными и отсталыми дикарями».

For some reason the author keeps saying the government is printing money and making inflation etc.
But the US government does not print money, everyone knows that, the money is printed by a private organisation, the Federal Reserve.
It is very suspicious that the author doesn't know such an obvious thing or is deliberately misrepresenting it.