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• Most of us would like to end our lives feeling both that we had a good time and that we left the…
• If we define pornography as any message from any communication medium that is intended to arouse sexual excitement, then it is clear…
• A coincidence is a trend we have decided not to take seriously.
• Despair ... is the only cure for illusion. Without despair we cannot transfer our allegiance to reality - it's a kind of…
• At a conservative estimate, there are probably a million men and women in their twenties and thirties who would happily work long…
• Our economy is based on spending billions to persuade people that happiness is buying things, and then insisting that the only way…
• One of the main reasons wealth makes people unhappy is that it gives them too much control over what they experience. They…
• Motors make noise and that tells you about the feelings and attitudes that went into it. Something was more important than sensory…
• Every invention creates new needs, but the biggest needs are not for new and more advanced versions of the last invention but…
• Every time we buy something we deepen our emotional deprivation and hence our need to buy something.
• The rule in our society is that while those who kill once make wretched a single person are severely punished, those (heads…
• I doubt that we Americans can come to terms with our money neuroses without understanding the more florid pathology of the very…

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