"I loved him, officer. More than any woman ever loved an egg."

-- Jasper Fforde

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“You are not paid to work hard. In fact, you are not paid for effort at all. You are paid for results. It's not what you do; it's what you get done.”

Source : Larry Winget (2007). “It's Called Work for a Reason!: Your Success is Your Own Damn Fault”, p.33, Penguin
“Unfortunately for ethical egoism, the claim that we will all be better off if every one of us does what is in his or her own interest is incorrect. This is shown by what are known as "prisoner's dilemma" situations, which are playing an increasingly important role in discussions of ethical theory... At least on the collective level, therefore, egoism is self-defeating - a conclusion well brought out by Parfit in his aforementioned Reasons and Persons.”
“How could I have been the valedictorian, the smartest, and never known Harlem existed? As a result, I began a lifelong learning experience, because I could not accept what the party line was with education - that these people want to live like this, these people don't have ambition, they don't want to work. You know, all the usual bullshit.”
“We all think we're different, but when it comes around, we end up needing the same things. Somebody to love us. Somebody to respect us.”
“Thousands of lives were suddenly ended by evil, despicable acts of terror. The pictures of airplanes flying into buildings, fires burning, huge structures collapsing, have filled us with disbelief, terrible sadness and a quiet, unyielding anger.”
“To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.”
“Patience is a virtue. Keep doing what you want to do and eventually things will happen.”
“However fragmented the world, however intense the national rivalries, it is an inexorable fact that we become more interdependent every day.”

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