"The salary of the chief executive of a large corporation is not a market award for achievement. It is frequently in the nature of a warm personal gesture by the individual to himself."

John Kenneth Galbraith, American Economist

Nature, Achievement

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"Space ails us moderns: we are sick with space."

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"The sun had burned through and the day had gone from dull to dazzling, yet in the west blask-satin thunderheads continued to stack up. It was as if night has burst a blood-vessel in the sky over there."

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"To his way of thinking, the only thing more natural than death was sex."

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