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Well, there's one thing to be said for money. It can make you rich.

— Tom Robbins Jitterbug Perfume (1984)

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The key to self-generated happiness (the only reliable kind) is the refusal to take oneself too seriously.

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Sometimes those things that attract the most attention to us are the things that afford us the greatest privacy.

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There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing worth killing for.

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Here's an idea: let's get over ourselves, buy a cherry pie, and go fall in love with life.

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Nature must govern technology, not the other way around.

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Men accept servility in order to acquire wealth; as if they could acquire anything of their own when they cannot even assert that they belong to themselves.

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Health is the greatest gift, contentment is the greatest wealth, a trusted friend is the best relative, Nibbana is the greatest bliss.

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Opulence is always the result of theft, if not committed by the actual possessor, then by his predecessor.

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Bourgeois society is ruled by equivalence. It makes the dissimilar comparable by reducing it to abstract quantities. To the Enlightenment, that which does not reduce to numbers, and ultimately to the one, becomes illusion.

Max Horkheimer Dialektik der Aufklärung [Dialectic of Enlightenment (1944)

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