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“The fundamental law of capitalism is: when workers have more money, businesses have more customers, and need more workers. The idea that high wages equals low employment, it's absurd.”
Source : "'Shit's Gonna Hit the Fan': Talking to a Billionaire About Class War". Interview with Hamilton Nolan, gawker.com. June 16, 2015.
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“A lot of Americans like happy endings, but life does not necessarily have a happy ending.”
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“I was struck by the way in which meanings are historically attached to words: it is so accidental, so remote, so twisted. A word is like a schoolgirl's room--a complete mess--so the great thing is to make out a way of seeing it all as ordered, as right, as inferred and following.”
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“When you stop drinking, you have to deal with this marvelous personality that started you drinking in the first place.”
Source : Jimmy Breslin (1986). “Table money”
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“Writing is storytelling. No matter how you slice it, you're saying, 'Once upon a time.' That's what writing is all about.”
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“We express our being by creating. Creativity is a necessary sequel to being.”
Source : Rollo May (1994). “The Courage to Create”, p.8, W. W. Norton & Company
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“Waiting to be happy limits our brain's potential for success, whereas cultivating positive brains makes us more motivated, efficient, resilient, creative, and productive, which drives performance upward.”
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“When I feel the joy of receiving a gift my heart nudges me to join creation's ballet, the airy dance of giving and receiving, and getting and giving again.”