Capitalism: That hypnotic, trance-like music that keeps them dancing on the backs of the bruised.
Complicated machinery has had to be matched by complicated social arrangements, designed to work as smoothly and efficiently as the new instruments of production.
"The object of life is to make sure you die a weird death. To make sure that however it finds you, it will find you under very weird circumstances. To live that kind of life . . . - Thomas Pynchon
Never attribute to intelligence that which can be adequately explained by sheer dumb luck.
The silver-lineing comes unstiched
caught in the twig of a broom of a witch
falls to the ground where you toil
at your feet it's just foil
You will never get rich working for someone else. You will forever be a cog in a much larger machine that exists to make other people rich.
- James Halloran
every one of you assholes thinks you are interpreting "do what thou wilt ...." correctly...but you are all wrong! (ok, Not very catchy but its true.)
You can pick your friends, and you can pick your nose, but you can't wipe your friends on the furniture.
There's a fine line between pride in one's identity and unearned moral superiority.
-Emily Bazelon
The key difference between science and religion is that you can have a chemistry lecture in the physics building but you can't have Seder in the mosque.
The wages of sin are death! (of course, After taxes, it's really more of a tired feeling....)
If an asshole is someone that makes you question the things that you care about, then we need more assholes.
A little rudeness and disrespect can elevate a meaningless interaction to a battle of wills and add drama to an otherwise dull day.
Keep taking the right path and you'll eventually go left, so go crazy! rebel now and have a happy retirement!
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