"By and large, the answer to the question "How do large institutions survive?" is "They don't!" The vast majority of large modern-day institutions some of them extremely vital to the functioning of our complex civilization simply fail to exist in the first place."

-- Eliezer Yudkowsky

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“To me, the blues is an infection. I don't think it's necessarily a melancholy thing; the blues can be really positive and I think I think anyone and everyone can have a place for the blues. It need not always a woeful, sorrowful thing. It's more reflective; it reminds you to feel.”

Source : FaceBook post by Mick Fleetwood from Oct 06, 2015
“Of course, individuals vary greatly within each racial group and should be treated as such.”
“It requires a certain kind of mind to see beauty in a hamburger bun. Yet is it any more unusual to find grace in the texture and softly carved silhouette of a bun than to reflect lovingly on the hackles of a fishing fly? Or the arrangements and textures on a butterfly's wing? Not if you are a McDonalds's man.”
“Once the government becomes the supplier of people's needs, there is no limit to the needs that will be claimed as a basic right.”
“I'm moving to Nevada. Either there or kill myself.”
“Make a decision to be successful right now. Most people never decide to be wealthy and that is why they retire poor.”
“When I start a song, it's the first thought. It's the first thought and the first cadence, because that's the most natural.”
“If it's too fashiony, it's not interesting to me.”

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