The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but of a set of priorities imposed upon the rest of the world by the rich. Consequently, the modern poor are not pitied but written off as trash. The twentieth-century consumer economy has produced the first culture for which a beggar is a reminder of nothing.
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Let the world know you as you are, not as you think you should be, because sooner or later, if you are posing, you will forget the pose, and then where are you?.
If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger?
If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger?
Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30.".
Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30.".
My family pride is something inconceivable. I can't help it. I was born sneering.
My family pride is something inconceivable. I can't help it. I was born sneering.
Do unto others as you would have others do unto you. [Matthew 7:120].
Do unto others as you would have others do unto you. [Matthew 7:120].
Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.
Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.
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Success is not something I've wrapped my brain around. If people go to those movies, then yes, that's true, big-time success. If not, it's much ado about nothing. [On the prospects for his 1997 movies The Rainmaker and Good Will Hunting].
