"To be a human is to be destroyed."

-- Soe Hok Gie

“Silk does for the body what diamonds do for the hand.”
“It is obviously quite difficult to be no longer loved when we are still in love, but it is incomparably more painful to be loved when we ourselves no longer love.”
“When I was the director of Central Intelligence in the early '90s, I tried to get the Air Force to partner with us in building drones. And they didn't want to, because they had no pilots.”
“I find it remarkable that virtually all of the large difference in labor supply between France and the United States is due to differences in tax systems. I expected institutional constraints on the operation of labor markets and the nature of the unemployment benefit system to be more important. I was surprised that the welfare gain from reducing the intratemporal tax wedge is so large.”
“He who climbs a cliff may die on the cliff, so what? Always a risk-taker by nature, now I became one by intent.”
“Music, you know, true music not just rock 'n' roll, chooses you.”
“a man can break God's laws and be forgiven. That's what they teach us. But when he breaks Nature's laws, there's no forgiveness - and there's no escape. Sooner or later he pays the penalty, or his children pay it - or his children's children. It doesn't matter much. It must be paid.”

Source : Martha Ostenso (1937). “The Stone Field”, New York, Dodd
“We don't need as much as we have. Hardly any of us need as much money as we have. It's true what they say about the best things in life being free.”

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