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“We know neither what's good for us nor what's bad. But we're free to decide on the meaning of the things that do happen. And that's our one and only strength.”
― Giuliano da Empoli, The Wizard of the Kremlin

“In the post-historical period there will be neither art nor philosophy, just the perpetual caretaking of the museum of human history.”
― Francis Fukuyama, The End of History and the Last Man

“Politics has a single purpose: to respond to man's terrors. That's why, when the state is no longer able to protect its citizens from fear, the very basis of its existence is called into question.”
― Giuliano da Empoli, Le Mage du Kremlin

“We should do away with the absolutely specious notion that everybody has to earn a living. It is a fact today that one in ten thousand of us can make a technological breakthrough capable of supporting all the rest. The youth of today are absolutely right in recognizing this nonsense of earning a living. We keep inventing jobs because of this false idea that everybody has to be employed at some kind of drudgery because, according to Malthusian Darwinian theory he must justify his right to exist. So we have inspectors of inspectors and people making instruments for inspectors to inspect inspectors. The true business of people should be to go back to school and think about whatever it was they were thinking about before somebody came along and told them they had to earn a living.”
― Buckminster Fuller