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The law of diminishing returns means that even the most beneficial prinicple will become harmful if carried far enough.


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I have never understood why it is "greed" to want to keep the money you have earned but not greed to want to take somebody else's money.

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It must be comforting, to have a faith like that. To believe so concretely that there’s someone—something— out there watching guard, keeping us safe, testing us only with what we can handle.



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Everything in art is but a copy of nature.




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