"Some of you say religion makes people happy. So does laughing gas."

-- Clarence Darrow

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“I've played golf with three U.S presidents.”
“The first seastead happened fifteen centuries ago. The result was the most beautiful city in the world, Venice. People who were sick of their violent governments fled to the water, where they built civilization on stilts. That startup society - a free city-state on the water - became so successful it dominated the Mediterranean for a thousand years.”

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“Artists look at the environment, and the best artists correctly diagnose the problem. I'm not saying artists can't be leaders, but that's not the job of art, to lead. Bob Marley, Nina Simone, Harry Belafonte - there are artists all through history who have become leaders, but that was already in them, nothing to do with their art.”
“We feel like there are way too many problems in the world, and there's nothing we can do to solve them. We forget how to be compassionate and start to feel hopeless.”

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“Once I got done with my career, I knew in my soul that I don't have any negative thoughts about myself. I just don't because I know you say you can and you say can't, you are right. I try to keep my mind full of really positive stuff.”
“I can hear those glances that you think are silent.”
“Today Americans are overcome not by the sense of endless possibility but by the banality of the social order they have erected against it.”

Source : Christopher Lasch (1991). “The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in an Age of Diminishing Expectations”, p.11, W. W. Norton & Company
“There is no more compassionate and effective way to help poor people in New York City than to give to Robin Hood.”

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