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He doesn’t want enemies, but he also doesn’t want to risk making the only thing that’s worse than that: friends.
Being smart is the worst thing one can be in modern society. All it ever means is more work.
Because a funny thing about rule-loving people is that to them it seems more important to impose punishment than it is to actually solve problems, and a funny thing about rule-breaking people is that they seem to find breaking rules a lot easier to do if someone else has broken them first.
because the truth about problems is that the problem itself is never actually the problem. It’s always the people involved who are the problem.
If you ask people what they think, they start thinking, and that’s how wars start.
Because the doctors and nurses understand very well that all the modern pills and treatments are surely great, but sometimes what people really need most of all is a prescription for a break.
