"The more grotesque your boss's pay and the less he has do to earn it, the bigger the motivation for you to work with the aim of being promoted to what he has."

-- Tim Harford

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“We work really hard. I work harder now than I've ever worked in my life. I didn't finish high school or go to college, but I'm able to make something of myself with music. We party a lot and don't always behave ourselves like model citizens, but at least we're honest, and we're not just doing things because it will get us attention.”

Source : "Jared Swilley of Black Lips". Interview with AVC, music.avclub.com. May 1, 2009.
“I feel if you hold yourself as an artist first and foremost, the barriers of gender come down.”
“Perhaps someday you can have one city as easy to see as Illusions and as hard to forget as Reality.”
“The aim of torture is to destroy a person as a human being, to destroy their identity and soul. It is more evil than murder... Today we know that survivors of torture can be helped to regain their health and strength, and in helping them we take the weapon from their torturers. They sought the destruction of other human beings. We have proved that they have not succeeded.”
“Fair or foul the lot apportioned life on earth, we bear alike.”
“I think that baseball games are like soap operas. If you watch five in a row, you know enough to get hooked.”
“I avoid my neighbors - luckily, my building has two exits.”
“If people would stop objectifying abstractions (which they probably never will), or if they would stop objectifying the abstractions they make consciously (which they might learn to do), at least half the pseudo-questions befuddling the world today - as they have befuddled it since time immemorial - would vanish. And that would be a very, very great gain.”

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