The Antoninos

"We've been brought up on a steady diet of narcissism, but as soon as we're released into the big world of unlimited opportunity, more and more of us crash and burn.
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"Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change" Bertrand Russell
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"The big reason poor people are poor is because they don't have enough money and it shouldn't come as a huge surprise that giving them money is a great way to reduce that problem" Charles Kenny
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look at Exodus 16: the people from Israel in the long journey out of slavery, they received manna from heaven. But it did not make them lazy; instead, it enabled them to be on the move" (Lancet)
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There's almost no country on Earth where the American Dream is less likely to come true than the U.S. of A.
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Poverty is not a lack of character, It's a lack of cash.
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In the age of the chip, the [container] box, and Internet retail, being just fractionally better than the rest means you've not only won the battle, you've won the war.
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Ideas that seem 'politically impossible' today may one day become 'politically inevitable'."

Utopia for Realists, Rutger Bregman