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It is rare indeed that people give. Most people guard and keep; they suppose that it is they themselves and what they identify with themselves that they are guarding and keeping, whereas what they are actually guarding and keeping is their system of reality and what they assume themselves to be.
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― The Fire Next Time
― The Fire Next Time
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Middle-class prosperity is lapidary; the flow of cash rounds and smooths a person like water does riverbed stones.
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― Cryptonomicon
― Cryptonomicon
