The Public would sell every right they have for the spectre of magic beans let alone physical ones. They don’t believe in anything substantively other than comfort.

–Private author about US Politics

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The second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first half

-Fyodor Dostoevsky

The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.

-Ian Fleming

Everytime you hear EBITDA substitute it with bullshit earnings.

-Charlie Munger

That’s L.A. They worship everything and they value nothing.

-Eva Mendes

I’ve got so much I want to say about the First Amendment as I sort of understand it, but it is bonkers.

-Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex

I believe in free speech, so long as the state is allowed to arrest those who say the wrong things.

-Titania McGrath

The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little they really know about what they imagine they can design.

-F.A. Hayek

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.

-Thomas Sowell

The Public would sell every right they have for the spectre of magic beans let alone physical ones. They don’t believe in anything substantively other than comfort.

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