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I felt I was drawing close to that age, that place in life, where you realize one day what you'd told yourself was a Zen detachment turns out to be naked fear. You'd had one serious love relationship in your life and it had ended in tragedy, and the tragedy had broken something inside you. But instead of trying to repair the broken place, or at least really stop and look at it, you skated and joked. You had friends, you were a decent citizen. You hurt no one. And your life was somehow just about half of what it could be.

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Adam Smith

It is not for its own sake that men desire money, but for the sake of what they can purchase with it.

Desire, Men, Money, Sake

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It is the interest of every man to live as much at his ease as he can; and if his emoluments are to be precisely the same, whether he does or does not perform some very laborious duty, it is certainly his interest, at least as interest is vulgarly understood, either to neglect it altogether, or, if he is subject to some authority which will not suffer him to do this, to perform it in as careless and slovenly a manner as that authority will permit.

Doe, Men, Neglect, Perform, Same, Suffering

Goods can serve many other purposes besides purchasing money, but money can serve no other purpose besides purchasing goods.

Besides, Economics, Purchasing, Purpose, Purposes, Serve

People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices.

Competition, Conspiracy, Invisible Hand, People, Public, Seldom

Corn is a necessary, silver is only a superfluity.

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The robot is going to lose. Not by much. But when the final score is tallied, flesh and blood is going to beat the damn monster.

Beat, Blood, Lose, Monsters, Robot, Technology

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I felt I was drawing close to that age, that place in life, where you realize one day what you'd told yourself was a Zen detachment turns out to be naked fear. You'd had one serious love relationship in your life and it had ended in tragedy, and the tragedy had broken something inside you. But instead of trying to repair the broken place, or at least really stop and look at it, you skated and joked. You had friends, you were a decent citizen. You hurt no one. And your life was somehow just about half of what it could be.

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