"The worst side effect of wealth is the social associations it forces on its victims, as people with big houses end up socializing with other people with big houses."

-- Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#People Quotes #House Quotes #Association Quotes

“Improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce and insecurity of property exist wherever the followers of the Prophet rule or live.”
“GRAPESHOT, n. An argument which the future is preparing in answer to the demands of American Socialism.”
“Women will not advance except by joining together in cooperative action.... Unlike other groups, women do not need to set affiliation and strength in opposition one against the other. We can readily integrate the two, search for more and better ways to use affiliation to enhance strength--and strength to enhance affiliation.”

Source : Jean Baker Miller (2012). “Toward a New Psychology of Women”, p.96, Beacon Press
“Evan Handler is not only a fine actor, heâ€™s a damn good writer. Itâ€™s Only Temporary is wise and funny and as righteously indignant as it is endearingly self-effacing. In what may be a literary first, the book actually left me wanting more.”
“In Cuba we have one party, but in the U.S. there is very little difference. Both parties are an expression of the ruling class.”

Source : "Mountain of Snakes (Part II)" by Sean Penn, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 30, 2008.
“To say that any people are not fit for freedom, is to make poverty their choice, and to say they had rather be loaded with taxes than not.”
“Many famous feet have trod Sublunary paths, and famous hands have weighed The strength they have against the strength they need; And famous lips interrogated God Concerning franchise in eternity....”
“Write comic books if you love comic books so much that you want to write them. Don't write them like movies. Comics can do a lot of things that movies can't do, and vice versa.”

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