"Making money is certainly the one addiction I cannot shake."

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Felix Dennis

#Addiction Quotes #Making Money Quotes #Shakes Quotes

“...and the night was comfortably warm as the soft filtered light continued to push the darkness into the shadows as they held each other and kissed and pushed each others darkness into the corner, believing in each others light, each others dream.”
“In the long run, our most deeply held desires will govern our choices, one by one and day by day, until our lives finally add up to what we have really wanted most--for good or otherwise. We can indeed have eternal life, if we really want it, so long as we don't want something else more.”
“We choose--or choose not--to be alone when we decide whom we will accept as our fellows, and whom we will reject. Thus an eremite in a mountain is in company, because the birds and coneys, the initiates whose words live in his 'forest books,' and the winds--the messengers of the Increate--are his companions. Another man, living in the midst of millions, may be alone, because there are none but enemies and victims around him.”
“There are all kinds of futures. There is a hoped-for future, there is a feared future, there is a predictable future, and there is an unimagined future.”
“We cling to hierarchies because our place in a hierarchy is, rightly or wrongly, a major indicator of our social worth.”

Source : Harold J. Leavitt (2005). “Top Down: Why Hierarchies are Here to Stay and how to Manage Them More Effectively”, p.35, Harvard Business Press
“It is easier to win love than to keep it.”
“I don't think the government should be in the trailer-park business. I don't think they know how to run a trailer park.”

Source : Interview with Sheila Heti, believermag.com. November 2007.
“You know how to split atoms, how to send explorers to the moon, how to splice genes, but you don't know how people ought to live.”

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