“It is not for its own sake that men desire money, but for the sake of what they can purchase with it.”

― Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations

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“People often think I'm a faker, but I'm usually honest, in a certain way—in such a way that often nobody believes me!”

― Richard Feynman, Surely You're Joking

“There must be something in books, things we can't imagine, to make a woman stay in a burning house; there must be something there. You don't stay for nothing.”

― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

“It is certain that I no less find the idea of God, that is to say, the idea of a supremely perfect Being, in me, than that of any figure or number whatever it is;”

― René Descartes, Meditations on First Philosophy

“True, it has conquered many diseases, broken the genetic code, and even placed human beings on the moon, and yet when a man of eighty is left in a room with two eighteen-year-old cocktail waitresses nothing happens.”

― Woody Allen, Side Effects

“But capitalist production begets, with the inexorability of a law of Nature, its own negation. It is the negation of negation.”

― Karl Marx, Das Kapital

“Everything starts somewhere, although many physicists disagree. But people have always been dimly aware of the problem with the start of things. They wonder aloud how the snowplow driver gets to work, or how the makers of dictionaries look up the...”

― Terry Pratchett, Hogfather

“This is why I am continuing my travels—not to seek other, better teachings, for I know there are none, but to depart from all teachings and all teachers and to reach my goal by myself or to die.”

― Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha

“As it says in Bible, God fights on side of heaviest artillery.”

― Robert A. Heinlein, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress

“Forty-four Americans have now taken the presidential oath. The words have been spoken during rising tides of prosperity and the still waters of peace. Yet, every so often the oath is taken amidst gathering clouds and raging storms.”

― Barack Obama, Inaugural Address

“Speak what you think now in hard words, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to-day.”

― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance

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