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You owe it to your self-respect to spend a lot of money on yourself.

— John Wyndham Trouble with Lichen (1960)

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When a day that you happen to know is Wednesday starts off by sounding like Sunday, there is something seriously wrong somewhere.

The Day of the Triffids (1951)

"No discovery is good or evil until men make it that way."

Jizzle (1954)

"If life weren't so short it would be worth people's while to do more to put the world to rights."

Trouble with Lichen (1960)

"There are some forms of knowledge which it is unwise to spread; men are not yet ready to handle them."

Sleepers of Mars (1973)

The world has so multiplied the causes of fear that no one is left entirely unafraid.

Stowaway to Mars (originally Planet Plane / The Space Machine) (1935)

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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.

Étienne de La Boétie Discourse on Voluntary Servitude (1548)

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

Gautama Buddha

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

Jerome The Cry for Justice (1915)

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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