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I will remember this, thought Ender, when I am defeated. To keep dignity, and give honor where it's due, so that defeat is not disgrace. And I hope I don't have to do it often.


Orson Scott Card


#dignity #disgrace #honor #dignity

How happy is the little stone That rambles in the road alone, And doesn't care about careers, And exigencies never fears; Whose coat of elemental brown A passing universe put on; And independent as the sun, Associates or glows alone, Fulfilling absolute decree In casual simplicity.


Emily Dickinson


#poems #poetry #career

The proverb warns that, 'You should not bite the hand that feeds you.' But maybe you should, if it prevents you from feeding yourself.


Thomas Stephen Szasz


#independence #self-reliance #independence

Nonetheless, many people, and especially intellectuals, passionately loathe capitalism. As they see it, this ghastly mode of society’s economic organization has brought about nothing but mischief and misery. Men were once happy and prosperous in the good old days preceding the Industrial Revolution. Now under capitalism the immense majority are starving paupers ruthlessly exploited by rugged individualists. For these scoundrels nothing counts but their moneyed interests. They do not produce good and really useful things, but only what will yield the highest profits. They poison bodies with alcoholic beverages and tobacco, and souls and minds with tabloids, lascivious books and silly moving pictures. The “ideological superstructure” of capitalism is a literature of decay and degradation, the burlesque show and the art of striptease, the Hollywood pictures and the detective stories.


Ludwig von Mises


#economics #greed #vice #art

Before we invented civilization our ancestors lived mainly in the open out under the sky. Before we devised artificial lights and atmospheric pollution and modern forms of nocturnal entertainment we watched the stars. There were practical calendar reasons of course but there was more to it than that. Even today the most jaded city dweller can be unexpectedly moved upon encountering a clear night sky studded with thousands of twinkling stars. When it happens to me after all these years it still takes my breath away.


Carl Sagan


#exploration #night-sky #nocturnal #skywatcher #space

Confusing monogamy with morality has done more to destroy the conscience of the human race than any other error.


George Bernard Shaw


#monogamy #morality #conscience

I’m a man of leisure. That’s because I have an English degree and can’t get a job.



Jarod Kintz


#degree #economic-depression #english #job #leisure

The power to tax is the power to destroy.


John Marshall


#taxes #taxing #economy

Don't tell me what you value, show me your budget, and I'll tell you what you value.


Joe Biden


#budgeting #economy #value #economy

They're so broke that they've actually cut essential services. In many places, they've cut policemen, because, who the fuck needs them? Or firemen, son of a bitch, it's much more fun watching something burn down.


Lewis Black


#budget #comedy #economy #fire #police






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