For the first time in 2,000 years the intellectuals are siding with the people who gave the hemlock to Socrates.

-Julien Benda

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Assyria soon discovered a painful truth: empires are like Ponzi schemes… They must continue to expand if they are not to collapse.

-Paul Kriwaczek

No man who opposes the unrighteousness of the state lives long if he is in a public position.

-Socrates, while at trial

The best thing about the future is, that it comes only one day at a time.

-Abraham Lincoln

You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with.

-Jim Rohn

I never knew where I wanted to go or what I wanted to do with my voice, but I just wanted to do it so bad.

-Neko Case

Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another; but women are by nature enemies

-Schopenhauer

Wherever you have a goat and you have a piece of wood, all I want to say is the goat better watch out because it’s probably going to end up being a bagpipe.

-Hans Zimmer

Whom the Gods would destroy, they first put on the cover of Business Week.

-Paul Krugman

Making money is art, and working is art, and good business is the best art

-Andy Warhol