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Much of what sophisticates loftily refer to as the "complexityof the real world is in fact the inconsistency in their own minds.


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When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear.



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I have never understood why it is "greed" to want to keep the money you have earned but not greed to want to take somebody else's money.



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Capitalism knows only one color: that color is green; all else is necessarily subservient to it, hence, race, gender and ethnicity cannot be considered within it.



The first lesson of economics is scarcity: there is never enough of anything to fully satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics.

The first lesson of economics is scarcity: there is never enough of anything to fully satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics.





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You must see within your mind first before anyone else can see it with you.



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The aim of my teaching is enlightenment, awakening from the dream state of separateness into the reality of the One. In short, my teaching is focused on realizing what you are.



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Yeah, it's unfair that you can get judged by something you didn't do, but it's also unfair that you can inherit money that you didn't work for.



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The single biggest existential threat that's out there, I think, is cyber.



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The important thing to understand about American history, wrote Mr. Ibis, in his leather-bound journal, is that it is fictional, a charcoal-sketched simplicity for the children, or the easily bored.




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