

“Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.”
― Brave New World
― Brave New World

“The great virtue of a free market system is that it does not care what color people are; it does not care what their religion is; it only cares whether they can produce something you want to buy. It is the most effective system we have discovered to enable people who hate one another to deal with one another and help one another.”
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“What people don't understand about depression is how much it hurts. It's like your brain is convinced that it's dying and produces an acid that eats away at you from the inside, until all that's less is a scary hollowness. Your mind fills with dark thoughts; you become convinced that your friends secretly hate you, you're worthless, and then there's no hope. I never got so low as to consider ending it all, but I understand how that can happen to some people. Depression simply hurts too much.”
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“Now he was proving it again. Each time was a new time and he never thought about the past when he was doing it.”
― The Old Man and the Sea
― The Old Man and the Sea

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