Sublime

The people Crossan described as the expendables, those at the bottom of the bottom of the world’s pyramids of power.

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8. Religion Dieu sert désormais la nation

She sat down in the library before her particular little heap of books on political economy and kindred matters, out of which she was trying to get light as to the best way of spending money so as not to injure one’s neighbors, or—what comes to the same thing—so as to do them the most good.

the amount we’re willing to pay for things often depends, to a large degree, on how fair the price appears to be.

This will change when people start selling not just their fiat, and not just their time, but when they start liquidating real assets.

sanest guide through the turbulence and hatred of human politics is a humorous and self-deprecating pessimism.