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The Bed of Procrustes (2016)
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A verbal threat is the most authentic certificate of impotence.
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The fastest way to become rich is to socialize with the poor; the fastest way to become poor is to socialize with the rich.
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To succeed in life requires a total inability to do anything that makes you uncomfortable when you look at yourself in the mirror.
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You get pseudo-order when you seek order; you only get a measure of order and control when you embrace randomness.
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The characteristic feature of the loser is to bemoan, in general terms, mankind's flaws, biases, contradictions, and irrationality - without exploiting them for fun and profit
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You will be civilized on the day you can spend a long period doing nothing, learning nothing, and improving nothing, without feeling the slightest amount of guilt.
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Karl Marx, a visionary, figured out that you can control a slave much better by convincing him he is an employee.
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Your reputation is harmed the most by what you say to defend it.
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The traits I respect are erudition and the courage to stand up when half-men are afraid for their reputation. Any idiot can be intelligent.
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Being an entrepreneur is an existential, not just a financial thing.
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Another definition of modernity: conversations can be more and more completely reconstructed with clips from other conversations taking place at the same time on the planet.
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True humility is when you can surprise yourself more than others; the rest is either shyness or good marketing
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By setting oneself totally free of constraints, free of thoughts, free of this debilitating activity called work, free of efforts, elements hidden in the texture of reality start staring at you; then mysteries that you never thought existed emerge in front of your eyes.
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It is also naïve empiricism to provide, in support of some argument, series of eloquent confirmatory quotes by dead authorities. By searching, you can always find someone who made a well-sounding statement that confirms your point of view and, on every topic, it is possible to find another dead thinker who said the exact opposite.
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The only valid political system is one that can handle an imbecile in power without suffering from it
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If my detractors knew me better they would hate me even more.
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Weak men act to satisfy their needs, stronger men their duties.
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Education makes the wise slightly wiser, but it makes the fool vastly more dangerous.
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In poor countries, officials receive explicit bribes; in D.C. they get the sophisticated, implicit, unspoken promise to work for large corporations
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Most so-called writers keep writing and writing with the hope, some day, to find something to say.
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The classical man's worst fear was inglorious death; the modern man's worst fear is just death
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You want to be yourself, idiosyncratic; the collective (school, rules, jobs, technology) wants you generic to the point of castration.
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Modernity: we created youth without heroism, age without wisdom, and life without grandeur.
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The best way to measure the loss of intellectual sophistication - this "nerdification," to put it bluntly - is in the growing disappearance of sarcasm, as mechanic minds take insults a bit too literally.
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When conflicted between two choices, take neither.
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Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.
Dorothy L. Sayers
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