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People are perverts...that's pretty much been the basis of my career anyway.

Every civilisation has had its irrational but reassuring myth. Previous civilisations have used their culture to sing about it and tell stories about it. Ours has used its mathematics to prove it.

Do nothing that matters without consulting a conversation.

Alice aurait pu se retrouver dans le roman d'un grand écrivain tchèque, mais elle a préféré être dans ma vie.

se halla en Vancouver[2], en el estado de Washington.

charge of a six-person team that you belong to. You walked in just as I was daydreaming, and I didn't grasp the real situation at that moment." "But that moment was the realest of my life," protested Markus without thinking. It had come right out of his heart.

C'était le genre de femme qui donne envie de boire du thé

The phrases 'certainty is an illusion' and 'think probabilistically about the world', both introduced in the first class, are the first two examples of high-level concepts which Dan calls airport ideas.

As time goes by, I realize that I do trust the wind. And I often write my songs for myself.

The Thackery T. Lambshead Pocket Guide To Obscure and Discredited Diseases.

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Here lies Nolly Goldsmith, for shortness called Noll,Who wrote like an angel, but talked like poor Poll.

Discouragement is a moral state, a failure of heart; you treat it by taking courage, not Prozac.

She got the magazine on a Wednesday morning, and on Thursday announced our marriage was over.

This was a new low, combining the perverse and the pathetic. Perthetic!

That indigenous Americans lived in generally free societies, and that Europeans did not, was never really a matter of debate in these exchanges: both sides agreed this was the case.

bullshit job into five categories. I will call these: flunkies, goons, duct tapers, box tickers, and taskmasters.

I am well known by my friends to be a workaholic - to their often justifiable annoyance. I am therefore keenly aware that such behavior is at best slightly pathological, and certainly in no sense makes one a better person.

one must oneself, in relations with one's friends and allies, embody the society one wishes to create.

one could certainly make the argument that there's a deep structural affinity between wasteful extravagance and bullshit...

Then you ask: what, within this cosmos, is the opposite of a vampire? The answer is obvious. The opposite of a vampire is a werewolf.

The reader might be asking: But what does all this have to do with the origins of money? The answer is, surprisingly: everything.

the taste for Victorian-era sci-fi futures is more than anything else a nostalgia for the last moment, before the carnage of World War I, when everyone could safely feel a redemptive future was possible.

Smith's argument is worth laying out in detail because it is, as I say, the great founding myth of the discipline of economics.