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Money doesn’t automatically mean taste.

The past is relevant only as data.

“The human eye is a wonderful device,” I quoted from Poems and Other Prevarications absently. “With a little effort, it can fail to see even the most glaring injustice.”

Whatever world it is, whatever you’ve done there for better or worse, you always leave the same way.

Alone.

The hours of the morning between breakfast and lunch were the time which the inhabitants of Riseholme chiefly devoted to spying on each other

Like Bancroft, MacIntyre had been a man of power, and like all men of power, when he talked of prices worth paying, you could be sure of one thing.

Someone else was paying.

Naturally these penalties were applicable only to private citizens, not military commanders or government executives. The powerful are jealous of their toys.

Anybody who sets out to turn the world upside down has no right to complain if he gets caught in its gears.

She described herself as happy. This diagnosis did not come from any welling up of joy inside herself. It came from the observed fact, looking at herself objectively, that whenever she decided she wanted something she always got it, and what other definition of happiness could there be?

Our representative government now is perhaps more representative than it has ever been before in history. It is not necessarily representative per capita, but it most surely is ad valorem. If you like philosophical problems. Here is one for you: should each human being’s vote register alike, as the lawbooks pretend and as some say the founders of our nation desired? Or should a vote be weighted according to the wisdom, the power, and the influence—that is, the money—of the voter?

All of them had been so tested and retested that they had acquired considerable skill in answering test questions the way the examiners wanted them answered.

It is a constant wonder to me how crazy a sane person can get.