"We're the richest economy in the history of the world. For the majority of Americans not to get the benefits of this extraordinarily prosperous economy, there's something fundamentally wrong."

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Robert Reich

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“A lie told well is just as good as the truth.”
“Welcome, maids of honor, You doe bring In the spring, And wait upon her.”
“I walk alone in the darkness and wonder how a person would begin to determine the circumference of the earth. I have no idea. Iâ€™d probably just google it.”

Source : Robin Sloan (2012). “Mr Penumbra's 24-hour Bookstore”, p.132, Atlantic Books Ltd
“A confessional passage has probably never been written that didn't stink a little bit of the writer's pride in having given up his pride.”
“Well. Then we had the irises, rising beautiful and cool on their tall stalks, like blown glass, like pastel water momentarily frozen in a splash, light blue, light mauve, and the darker ones, velvet and purple, black cat's ears in the sun, indigo shadow, and the bleeding hearts, so female in shape it was a surprise they'd not long since been rooted out. There is something subversive about this garden of Serena's, a sense of buried things bursting upwards, wordlessly, into the light, as if to point, to say: Whatever is silenced will clamor to be heard, though silently.”
“I had a national and international reputation. I had written the history and articles. So I brought to the Trotskyist movement some international reputation.”
“A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed of; it heightens all the virtues which it accompanies; like the shades in paintings, it raises and rounds every figure and makes the colors more beautiful, though not so glar ...”
“I have too many ideas for a lifetime.”

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