Economic life, as always, is a matrix in which result becomes cause and cause becomes result.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith
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Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life. Thus people haunted by the purposelessness of their lives try to find a new content not only by dedicating themselves to a holy cause but also by nursing a fanatical grievance. A mass movement offers them unlimited opportunities for both.
~ Eric Hoffer
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Words are made for a certain exactness of thought, as tears are for a certain degree of pain. What is least distinct cannot be named; what is clearest is unutterable.
~ René Daumal
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To be controlled in our economic pursuits means to be always controlled unless we declare our specific purpose. Or, since when we declare our specific purpose we shall also have to get it approved, we should really controlled in everything.
~ Friedrich Hayek
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Perhaps a lunatic was simply a minority of one.
~ George Orwell
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Nature and art, being two different things, cannot be the same thing. Through art we express our conception of what nature is not.
~ Pablo Picasso
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This is how it works now with the news: the story begins with a moral, then a narrative is fashioned to support it.
~ Walter Kirn
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Democracy cannot consist solely of elections that are nearly always fictitious and managed by rich landowners and professional politicians.
~ Che Guevara
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There is an insistent tendency among serious social scientists to think of any institution which features rhymed and singing commercials, intense and lachrymose voices urging highly improbable enjoyment, caricatures of the human esophagus in normal and impaired operation, and which hints implausibly at opportunities for antiseptic seduction as inherently trivial. This is a great mistake. The industrial system is profoundly dependent on commercial television and could not exist in its present form without it.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith
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They who clamor loudest for freedom are often the ones least likely to be happy in a free society.
~ Eric Hoffer
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