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They say productivity is the key to confidence, and confidence … to productivity. And they’re happy walking back and forth between these two rooms, each the excuse for the other.

— James Richardson Vectors: Aphorisms and Ten Second Essays (2001)

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Success is whatever humiliation everyone has agreed to compete for.

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