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Look at the scope of writers who sell stuff. I'm at the very top of the power curve in terms of sales. — Tucker Max
If we don't like rent control, we ought to oppose it on political and social grounds - and not just by arguing that, thanks to… — Evgeny Morozov
I know a lot of people with obsessive qualities, and there's a positive and negative part to it. There's the appeal of someone who's so… — Callum Keith Rennie
A currency designed for long-term storage and investment doesn't do so well at encouraging transactions and exchange in the moment. — Douglas Rushkoff
Overwinding happens when hedge funds destroy companies by attempting to leverage derivatives against otherwise productive long-term assets. — Douglas Rushkoff
No matter how invasive the technologies at their disposal, marketers and pollsters never come to terms with the living process through which people choose products… — Douglas Rushkoff
Walkman was the precursor to the cell phone, in terms of your strategy for getting through the urban landscape and the modern experience. Insulate yourself… — Douglas Rushkoff
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not… — Henry David Thoreau
Not all are called to be artists in the specific sense of the term. Yet, as Genesis has it, all men and women are entrusted… — Pope John Paul II
Scientists, therefore, are responsible for their research, not only intellectually but also morally. This responsibility has become an important issue in many of today's sciences,… — Fritjof Capra
Do your own thing on your own terms and get what you came here for — Oliver James
And it is clear that in the colonial countries the peasants alone are revolutionary, for they have nothing to lose and everything to gain. The… — Frantz Fanon
If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see… — Albert Einstein
Sometimes the house of the future is better built, lighter and larger than all the houses of the past, so that the image of the… — Gaston Bachelard
The term ignorant is indeed perhaps an overstatement, implying as it does that something is known somewhere, whereas in reality we are not even sure… — John Ashbery
I am coming to terms with the fact that loving someone requires a leap of faith, and that a soft landing is never guaranteed. — Sarah Dessen
Since, in the long run, every planetary civilization will be endangered by impacts from space, every surviving civilization is obliged to become spacefaring--not because of… — Carl Sagan
Her joke of a name aside, her general unprettiness aside, she was, in terms of permanently memorable, immoderately perceptive, small-area faces, a stunning and final… — J D Salinger
I think we are well advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be, whether we find them attractive company or… — Joan Didion
If you havenâ€™t the strength to impose your own terms upon life, then you must accept the terms it offers you. — Thomas Stearns Eliot

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