"[...]The corporation is the future. We need to let business run the country and establish a true… — David Mitchell
"[...]The corporation is the future. We need to let business run the country and establish a true meritocracy."
"Not choked by welfare, unions, 'affirmative action' for amputee transvestite colored homeless arachnophobes..."
"A meritocracy of acumen. A culture that is not ashamed to acknowledge that wealth attracts power..."
"... and that the wealthmakers—us—are rewarded. When a man aspires to power, I ask one simple question: 'Does he think like a businessman?'"
Luisa rolls her napkin into a compact ball. "I ask three simple questions. How did he get that power? How is he using it? And how can it be taken off the sonofabitch?"
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"And if you threaten my reputation, oh well, I'll have to ruin yours!"
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I hear my father-in-law's response[...] "Naïve, dreaming Adam. He who would do battle with the many-headed hydra of human nature must pay a world of pain & his family must pay it along with him! & only as you gasp your dying breath shall you understand, your life amounted to no more than one drop in a limitless ocean!"
Yet what is any ocean but a multitude of drops?
p. 508
Books don't offer real escape but they can stop a mind scratching itself raw.
