"In the bureaucratic machine of socialism the way toward promotion is not achievement but the favor of the superiors."

-- Ludwig von Mises

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“At first sight nothing seems more obvious than that everything has a beginning and an end, and that everything can be subdivided into smaller parts. Nevertheless, for entirely speculative reasons the philosophers of Antiquity, especially the Stoics, concluded this concept to be quite unnecessary. The prodigious development of physics has now reached the same conclusion as those philosophers, Empedocles and Democritus in particular, who lived around 500 B.C.E. and for whom even ancient man had a lively admiration.”
“Come to the sunset tree! The day is past and gone; The woodman's axe lies free, And the reaper's work is done.”
“My life is not my own business.”
“I'm a bit of a glutton - I eat too much of all that is good to eat.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“I was told in many places of Osgar's bravery and Goll's strength and Conan's bitter tongue, and the arguments of Oisin and Patrick. And I have often been given the story of Oisin's journey to Tir-nan-Og, the Country of the Young, that is, as I am told, a fine place and everything that is good is in it.”
“The designers, photographers and models I work with, they are really hard-working people who are devoting their lives to fashion. They're kind of like nuns of fashion.”
“The brief relief of seeing other people when I leave my room turns into a desperate need to be alone, and then being alone turns into a terrible fear that I will have no friends, I will be alone in this world and in my life. I will eventually be so crazy from this black wave, which seems to be taking over my head with increasing frequency, that one day I will just kill myself, not for any great, thoughtful existential reasons, but because I need immediate relief.”
“My inventing time is all done under the influence of aerobic exercise. Basically, I do all my thinking while I run.”

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