Widespread caffeine use explains a lot about the twentieth century. – Greg Egan, “Distress”
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But we have created a society that does not allow opportunities for those people to take care of themselves because we have denied them those opportunities. – Muhammad Yunus
In return, society rewards those who give it what it wants. That is why how much money people have earned is a rough measure of how much they gave society what it wanted. – Ray Dalio
The product of the artist has become less important than the fact of the artist. We wish to absorb this person. We wish to devour someone who has experienced the tragic. In our society this person is much more important than anything he might create. – David Mamet
A Libertarian society of unfettered individualism spreads its benefits to virtually everyone – not just those who have the resources to seize political power. – Harry Browne
Its nothing to be born ugly. Sensibly, the ugly woman comes to terms with her ugliness and exploits it as a grace of nature. To become ugly means the beginning of a calamity, self-willed most of the time. – Colette