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We are on the edge of a total end to civilized existence
on this planet, perhaps the end of life itself. |
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| We can safely abandon the doctrine of the eighties, namely that the rich were not working because they had too little money, the poor because they had much. |
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| We have escapist fiction, so why not escapist biography? |
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| We now in the United States have more security guards for the rich than we have police services for the poor districts. If you're looking for personal security, far better to move to the suburbs than to pay taxes in New York. |
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| Wealth is not without its advantages, and the case to the contrary, although it has often been made, has never proved widely persuasive. |
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| Wealth is the relentless enemy of understanding. |
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| Wealth, in even the most improbable cases, manages to convey the aspect of intelligence. |
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| What is called a high standard of living consists, in considerable measure, in arrangements for avoiding muscular energy, for increasing sensual pleasure and enhancing caloric intake above any conceivable nutritional requirement |
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| When people are the least sure, they are often the most dogmatic |
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| When people put their ballots in the boxes, they are, by that act, inoculated against the feeling that the government is not theirs. They then accept, in some measure, that its errors are their errors, its aberrations their aberrations, that any revolt will be against them. It's a remarkably shrewd and rather conservative arrangement when one thinks of it. |
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| Where humor is concerned there are no standards - no one can say what is good or bad, although you can be sure that everyone will |
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| Wisdom itself is often an abstraction associated not with fact or reality but with the man who asserts it and the manner of its assertion |
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| You will find that the State is the kind of organization which, though it does big things badly, does small things badly, too. |
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