"[A] great embarrassing factâ€¦ haunts all attempts to represent the market as the highest form of human freedom: that historically, impersonal, commercial markets originate in theft."

-- David Graeber

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“I'm not ridiculously wealthy, but I don't squander money either.”
“The way to despair is to refuse to have any kind of experience.”
“School was a waste of time for me. I was bored and left at 16. I started taking correspondence courses at college instead. I did incredibly well. I won an award for my grades.”
“Still and all, why bother? Here's my answer. Many people need desperately to receive this message: I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people do not care about them. You are not alone.”
“I hope God speaks English. If I get up to heaven and have to point at a menu, I'm gonna be pissed.”
“Travelers are always discoverers, especially those who travel by air. There are no signposts in the sky to show a man has passed that way before. There are no channels marked. The flier breaks each second into new uncharted seas.”
“Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges.”

Source : Herman Melville (2009). “Billy Budd, Sailor and Selected Tales”, p.312, OUP Oxford
“A runner's stride is not perfectly efficient.”

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