"Wherever there is great property there is great inequality. For one very rich man there must be at least five hundred poor, and the affluence of the few supposes the indigence of the many. The affluence of the rich excites the indignation of the poor, who are often both driven by want, and prompted by envy, to invade his possessions."

-- Adam Smith

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“Voting is a civic sacrament.”
“I don't have to hide or be somebody I'm not. I don't have to compromise. I can just be myself.”
“You don't get nothing from sleep but a dream.”
“The fatal flaw of gravity; when you are down, everything falls down on you.”
“Once upon a time . . .â€ â€œIn the beginning was . . .â€ Thatâ€™s the way it always starts off. Every story, gospel, history, chronicle, myth, legend, folktale, or old wivesâ€™ tale blues riff begins with â€œWoke up this morninâ€™. . . .”
“There comes a time in every person's life when he has to choose the course his life will take.”
“I had a job, I got ill, I left the job to get better, and while I was getting better, I wrote some stories. I sent them to some publishers and the fifth one who replied said they'd take them. Then they went bankrupt. Then that bankrupt publisher got bought by a bigger firm. Story: in the end is the beginning, and in the beginning is the end.”
“The more the schemata are differentiated, the smaller the gap between the new and the familiar becomes, so that novelty, instead of constituting an annoyance avoided by the subject, becomes a problem and invites searching.”

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