"Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue."

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Cesare Pavese

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“Listening causes me to find the existence of truth behind the veil.”
“Slavery is the most insane thing... I don't know that we've ever seen in history, but it's got to be close. The idea of slavery is such a base impulse. It's like, "I'm going to kidnap you and then you're going to do everything I want." Like, what? And then there's the historical aspect. It had a huge effect on human history.”
“If you focus only on yourself and neglect others, you will lose; but you will gain if you value others as much as you cherish yourself.”
“I used to hate flying. I would sit there, rigid, convinced that if I relaxed, the plane would drop out of the sky.”
“In the past I've always been the type of person to try and fit a square peg in a round hole. I can be very tenacious like that. But since I've had my daughter, I've found that I like the way life unfolds when I give the universe some space to guide me. It took me until my forties to realize that.”

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“We have to grasp, as Marx and Adam Smith did, that corporations are not concerned with the common good. They exploit, pollute, impoverish, repress, kill, and lie to make money. They throw poor people out of homes, let the uninsured die, wage useless wars for profit, poison and pollute the ecosystem, slash social assistance programs, gut public education, trash the global economy, plunder the U.S. Treasury and crush all popular movements that seek justice for working men and women. They worship money and power.”
“This is a highly reliable power source. Being a large credit card processor, doing $6 million an hour in transactions, our computers have to work.”
“I'm constantly revising. Once the book is written and typed, I go through the entire draft again.”

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