"This is my long-run forecast in brief: The material conditions of life will continue to get better for most people, in most countries, most of the time, indefinetly. Within a century or two, all nations and most of humanity will be at or above today's Western living standards. I also speculate, however, that many people will continue to think and say that the conditions of life are getting worse."

-- Julian Simon

#Running Quotes #Country Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“I hope that I'm not simply defined by 'The X-Files,' and I hope I have more work that is important to do.”
“That's what civilization sometimes did to threats, real or perceived. They walled them off. Us against them. Survival of the fittest. You die so I can live.”
“Oh, I think I've been entirely selfish with my career. I've done what I wanted to do, and not put myself out for anyone else particularly.”
“You don't just deal with adversity. You use it to propel you forward.”
“The world is, for the most part, a collective madhouse, and practically everyone, however "normal" his facade, is faking sanity.”
“All punishment is mischief; all punishment in itself is evil.”
“In Macbeth a lady is restrained from the murder of a king by his resemblance of her father as he slept. Should not all men be restrained from acts of violence and even of unkindness against their fellow men by observing in them something which resembles the Savior of the World? If nothing else certainly, a human figure?”
“My job never actually leaves me. I watch people who come home from work at six and they're done, and that seems crazy. Then again, they have to get up at seven and go to work, to a job that maybe they don't really care about, and I get to do something that I care about.”

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