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“Contrary to economists' beliefs, the informal sectors of the world's economies, in total, are predominant, and the institutionalized, monetized sectors grow out of them and rest upon them, rather than the reverse.”
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“These people are a specimen of how people talk, the wide world over ... You see how they argue upon the vast interests of vast bodies from the temporary aspect of their own little affairs.”
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“... dreams are, by definition, cursed with short lifespans.”
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“Being very rich as far as I am concerned is having a margin. The margin is being able to give.”
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“If we justify war, it is because all peoples always justify the traits of which they find themselves possessed, not because war will bear an objective examination of its merits.”
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“He had the Gaelic gayety and melancholy, like the streaks of fat and lean in Irish bacon.”
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“If you avoid what is dangerous, you avoid life. If you throw yourself into a dangerous place without preparation, you devalue life. Writing is one of the crossroads where what is most disturbing can be explored and investigated without destroying yourself or others. This is one of the highest purposes of the arts.”
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“Moral qualities rule the world, but at short distances the senses are despotic.”