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  • Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force. But even Capitalist cynicism will admit that however unconscionable we may be when our own interests are affected, we can be most indignantly virtuous at the expense of others.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Self Quotes , May Quotes
  • It was on the 10th day of May - 1884 - that I confessed to age by mounting spectacles for the first time, and in the same hour I renewed my youth, to outward appearance, by mounting a bicycle for the first time. The spectacles stayed on.
  • 6 years ago



    Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Age Quotes , May Quotes
  • The origins and travels of our purchases remain matters of indifference, although to the more imaginative at least a slight dampness at the bottom of a carton, or an obscure code printed along a computer cable, may hint at processes of manufacture and transport nobler and more mysterious, more worthy of wonder and study, than the very goods themselves.
  • 6 years ago



    Tags : Alain de Botton Quotes , Hints Quotes , May Quotes