"The thought of all that happiness was hard to bear. What's the point of happiness when all it does is throw the facts of dying into clear relief?"

-- Sebastian Faulks

#Dying Quotes #Relief Quotes #Facts Quotes

“There are two types of actors: those who say they don't want to be famous and those who are liars.”
“What our generation has forgotten is that the system of private property is the most important guarantee of freedom, not only for those who own property, but scarcely less for those who do not. It is only because the control of the means of production is divided among many people acting independently that nobody has complete power over us, that we as individuals can decide what to do with ourselves.”

Source : "The Road to Serfdom". Book by Friedrich Hayek, Ch. 7 : Economic Control and Totalitarianism, 1940 - 1943.
“I went to work at seven in the morning. Around noon time we got the watery soup. And we worked until seven or eight or nine at night, sometimes later. And then I walked back home - there was no public transportation - into that shared room. And if there was food we would prepare an evening meal depending on what was available. And then probably go to bed because it was cold most the time. And then start the day all over again, six or seven days a week.”
“Arm yourself with as many options as possible before making your next move.”
“If you're keeping score, win!”
“The point is, there's this new sense of skepticism and questioning toward tech, even if it is pretty inchoate. What I hope the book helps to do is help people clarify what is amiss, by presenting a critique that is grounded in economics.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“The philosophies behind meditation are very current today and are a way of finding some sort of peace.”
“Take pictures of what you fear.”

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