"I smell fennel," Launcelot said. "That reminds me, I should tell you I have discovered a specific for maims. You take salt, good-quality river mud, and bee urine, and slather it on the maim and hold it there for two days. Works like a charm. Gathering the bee urine is a bit of a bore."

-- Donald Barthelme

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“Pyramiding instructions appear on dollar bills. Add smaller and smaller amounts on the way up. Keep your eye open at the top.”

Source : "Trend Following: Learn to Make Millions in Up or Down Markets". Book by Michael Covel, 2009.
“There's nothing you can say that won't make you seem ungrateful or rude.”
“The redistribution of wealth creates dependence on the people to whom it is redistributed, it doesn't incentivize them to create their own wealth.”
“When we were walking through the narrow alleys [of the Mathare Valley slums], it was literally impossible not to step in the raw sewage and the garbage alongside the little homes. But at the same time it was also impossible not to see the human vitality, the aspiration and the ambition of the people who live there.”
“Eternity is in love with the productions of time.”
“I think the discomfort that some people feel in going to the monkey cages at the zoo is a warning sign.”
“We've seen in the last half century an incredible shift. This is just an extraordinary time to be alive.”
“Life is always at some turning point.”

Source : Irwin Edman (1968). “The Uses of Philosophy: An Irwin Edman Reader”

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