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"Setting our living standards and expectations based on the status of others is like wishing that apples were onions."
"Prostitutes are paid for taking their clothes off. Celebrities are paid for putting others' clothes on."
"The dividing line between those who will be great and those who will be mediocre is the amount of time each person converts into added value to himself."
". . . they would neither hate nor envy us if they did not deem us so much happier than themselves."
"Just because someone throws their success in your face doesn't mean you have to let it get in your eyes."
"All human excellence is but comparative. There may be persons who excel us, as much as we fancy we excel the meanest."
"Flying from the U.S. to Tokyo takes approximately as long as law school."
"What an ugly beast the ape, and how like us."
"If we come from the water, I conclude that we come from different kinds of it. I will meet a person and in his eyes see an ocean, deep and never ending; then I will meet another person and feel as though I have stepped into a shallow puddle on the street, there is nothing in it. Or maybe some of us come from the water, and some of us come from somewhere else; then it's all a matter of finding those who are the same as us."
"Sugar candy tasted better than bitter truth."
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"I was always the youngest person in class, skinny, scrawny, no good at sports. I asserted myself by being smart. But then I got to college and started to get C's and D's. That was fantastic. I no longer had to be the smartest person in the room."
"It was a December night so cold and clear that the air felt like the air of the Moon - lung-burning, mentholated and pure."
"And then I felt sad because I realized that once people are broken in certain ways, they can't ever be fixed, and this is something nobody ever tells you when you are young and it never fails to surprise you as you grow older as you see the people in your life break one by one. You wonder when your turn is going to be, or if it's already happened."
"When we constantly ask for miracles, we're unraveling the fabric of the world. A world of continuous miracles would not be a world, it would be a cartoon."
"So I got to thinking that perhaps that's what money is: a crystallization-or, rather, a homogenization-of time and free will into those things we call dollars and pounds and yen and euros. Money multiplies your time. It also expands your agency and broadens the number of things you can do accordingly. Big-time lottery winners haven't won ten million dollars-they've won ten thousand person-years of time to do pretty much anything they want anywhere on Earth. Windfalls are like the crystal meth version of time and free will."
"The advent of cellphones may, in the end, be no more relevant than the ability of laptops to change our written documents into ones using cool new fonts."
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