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I believe in fighting with investors to reduce the amount of equity they get and then being as generous as you possibly can with employees.

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Eric Hoffer

To believe that if we could have but this or that we would be happy is to suppress the realization that the cause of our unhappiness is in our inadequate and blemished selves. Excessive desire is thus a means of suppressing our sense of worthlessness.

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Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life.

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Social improvement is attained more readily by a concern with the quality of results than with the purity of motives.

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The most effective way to silence our guilty conscience is to convince ourselves and others that those we have sinned against are indeed depraved creatures, deserving every punishment, even extermination. We cannot pity those we have wronged, nor can we be indifferent toward them. We must hate and persecute them or else leave the door open to self-contempt.

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The game of history is usually played by the best and the worst over the heads of the majority in the middle.

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It is not actual suffering but the taste of better things which excites people to revolt.

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