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“Power, time, gravity, love. The forces that really kick ass are all invisible.”
― Cloud Atlas
― Cloud Atlas
“It is the misanthrope who alone has clarity.By standing outside the huddles of man,he sees a lot,and what he often sees is the evidence that people are not as smart as dogs think they are.And he wants to see it time and again.In the fog of ambiguities and mysteries,he desperately searches for truths because truth usually shows humanity in a poor light”
― The Illicit Happiness of Other People
― The Illicit Happiness of Other People
“Getting to the top has an unfortunate tendency to persuade people that the system is OK after all.”
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“Faith, the least exclusive club on Earth, has the craftiest doorman. Every time I've stepped through its wide-open doorway, I find myself stepping out on the street again.”
― Cloud Atlas
― Cloud Atlas
“A capital tax is the most appropriate response to the inequality r > g as well as to the inequality of returns to capital as a function of the size of the initial stake.”
― Capital in the Twenty-First Century
― Capital in the Twenty-First Century
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