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“Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me.”

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F. Scott Fitzgerald was an American author of novels and short stories, renowned for his works that encapsulate the Jazz Age and the Roaring Twenties. His most celebrated novel, 'The Great Gatsby,' is a critical and commercial success, reflecting the themes of the American Dream and the decline of the American upper class. more

“[T]here seems to have been an actual decline in rational thinking. The United States had become a place where entertainers and professional athletes were mistaken for people of importance. They were idolized and treated as leaders; their opinions were sought on everything and they took themselves just as seriously-after all, if an athlete is paid a million or more a year, he knows he is important ... so his opinions of foreign affairs and domestic policies must be important, too, even though he proves himself to be ignorant and subliterate every time he opens his mouth.”

“Contemplation must bring forth right action in order to permit further growth.”

Action Order Growth Contemplation Permit Right Action Stranger In A Strange Land

Book:Stranger in a Strange Land

Source: Stranger in a Strange Land

“The ordinary bloke will not voluntarily pay for "art" that leaves him unmoved--if he does pay for it, the money has to be conned out of him, by taxes and such.”

Ifs Doe Art Pay Taxes Ordinary Blokes

Author:Robert A. Heinlein

“It is said that God notes each sparrow that falls. And so He does. But the proper closest statement of it that can be made in English is that God cannot avoid noting the sparrow because the Sparrow is God. And when a cat stalks a sparrow both of them are God, carrying out God's thoughts.”

Doe Made Said God Fall Cat Notes Statements Closest Stalking Sparrows

Author:Robert A. Heinlein

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