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"If malice or envy were tangible and had a shape, it would be the shape of a boomerang."
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"It is impossible not to envy the man who can dismiss reason, although we know how it must turn out at last."

"Truthfully, there're only a handful of people in this world who really get joy from seeing you happy. Most won't care if you're happy, only if you're miserable like they are. They eat that shit up."

"Though I have said that I envy the normal man to the last drop of my bile, yet I should not care to be in his place such as he is now (though I shall not cease envying him). No, no; anyway the underground life is more advantageous. There, at any rate, one can, Oh, but even now I am lying! I am lying because I know myself that it is not underground that is better, but something different, quite different, for which I am thirsting, but which I cannot find! Damn underground!"

"As a bird with beautiful feathers is the target of hunters, so the gifted are targets of the envious."

"Talented minds have always been stealthily targeted by mediocre ones."

"Beggars do not envy millionaires though of course they will envy other beggars who are more successful."

"Envy is a much natural byproduct when your childhood isn't the way it is supposed to be."
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"Congress seems to want to cure every ill known to man except unconstitutional government and high taxes."

"Government is inherently incompetent, and no matter what task it is assigned, it will do it in the most expensive and inefficient way possible."

"The politicians in this world... have at their command weapons of mass destruction far more complex than their own thinking processes."

"The truth is that neither British nor American imperialism was or is idealistic. It has always been driven by economic or strategic interests."

"We... are not really free if we can't control our own government and its policies. And we will never do that if we remain ignorant."
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