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“Monopoly is a market, or part of a market, reserved to the exclusive possession of one or more sellers by means of the initiation of physical force by the government, or with the sanction of the government. Monopoly exists insofar as the freedom of competition is violated, with the freedom of competition being understood as the absence of the initiation of physical force as the preventive of competition. Where there is no initiation of physical force to violate the freedom of competition, there is no monopoly. The freedom of competition is violated only insofar as individuals are excluded from markets or parts of markets by means of the initiation of physical force. Monopoly is thus a market or part of a market reserved to the exclusive possession of one or more sellers by means of the initiation of physical force. It is thus something imposed upon the market from without—by the government. (Private individuals—gangsters—can initiate force to reserve markets only if the government allows it and thereby sanctions it.) Thus, monopoly is not something which emerges from the normal operation of the economic system, and which the government must control.”

“What my dad did was wrong, awful, inexcusable, but maybe there's still hope for him. Maybe if he can get the help he needs, they'll be able to resurrect the man who taught me about Bach's toccata and slept in the chair in my room when I was afraid of the dark. And if there's still hope for my dad, there has to still be hope for me. Mabe it's true that he and I have the same blag slug inside of us, but it's up to me to conquer it. I owe that to my dad. I owe that to myself. [....] I make a promise to myself: /I will be stronger than my sadness./ I will do my best to become the girl from Roman's drawing. The girl with the bright eyes. The girl with hope.”

“When all help is stopped, when your loved ones started doubting your competence, when failure seems almost confirmed, but no matter what, if you make one more attempt, that final step will fetch you the victory.”

“Youth is the most suitable age to enjoy the life completely or to work diligently for the life, what you decide makes your rest of the life ordinary or legendary respectively.”

“Ordinary men earns responsibility towards their family, extraordinary men earns duty towards their nation.”

“So why bother investing in one's memory in the age of externalized memories? The best answer I can give is the one that I received unwittingly from EP, whose memory had been so completely lost that he could not place himself rin time or space, or relative to other people. That is: How we perceive the world and how we act in it are products of how and what we remember. We're all just a bundle of of habits shaped by our memories. And to the extent that we control our lives, we do so by gradually altering those habits, which is to say the networks or our memory. No lasting joke, invention, insight, or work of art was ever produced by an external memory. Not yet, at least. Or ability to find humour in the world, to make connections between previously unconnected notions, to create new ideas, to share in a common culture: All these essentially human acts depend on memory. Now more than ever, as the role of memory in our culture erodes at a faster pace than ever before, we need to cultivate our ability to remember. Our memories make us who we are. They are the seat of our values ad source of our character. [...] That's what Ed had been trying to impart to me from the beginning: that memory training is not just fro the sake of performing partyb tricks; it's about nurturing something profoundly and essentially human.”

“I just don't get it. How does it happen, that good people let worthless ones into their lives? Why can't we just leave those people who are nothing but trash? We are not a recycling company for God's sake. I wish we had “human quality” scanners on our eyes set by default. Scanners which would reflect all the essence of people standing in front of us. Can you imagine how much easier our lives would be?”

“«Вот если б человека можно было так омолодить, как дерево. Срезать с него плохие воспоминания, отскоблить всю боль, все разочарования, будто мертвую ткань; состричь ошибки, глупые решения, оплошности и осветлить мысли. Если б можно было поступать так каждую весну, чтобы входить в Новый год чистым и невинным...»”

“— Taigi... žmogus - vanduo. Vieni kaip upė, kiti kaip šaltinis, treti kaip jūra, bet visi kintantys, nes tokia mūsų prigimtis, — jis kalba tyliai, tarsi ir man atskleistų kokią paslaptį, akys gyvai spindi. — galim būti ramūs, viliojantys ir nepaprastai pavojingi vienu metu. Mes apiplaukiam kliūtis, kečiam formą ir srovę, jei nenorim - mūsų net užtvankos nesulaikys, surasim nors mažiausią plyšelį ir tėksim toliau. Išbandymai, sukrėtimai - tai tik galimybė keisti kryptį. Taip mes tobulėjam, stiprėjam, galų gale - gyvenam. Juk užsistovėjęs vanduo virsta pelke... Kas nori būti pelke? Tu, tikiu, nenori. Vanduo turi ir paviršių, ir dugną, tačiau visų svarbiausia - kas tarp šių dviejų ribų, — Matiejus trumpam nutyla, prisislenka arčiau ir tęsia: — Man patinka, tai, ką aš pastebiu tavyje. Velniop tas ribas. Gali keistis ar likti tokia pati, tavo reikalas. Aš tik nuoširdžiai linkiu, kad būtum patenkinta, kad džiaugtumeisi savo gyvenimu. O jei negalėsi to padaryti, tikiuosi, turėsi pakakamai jėgų pradėti iš naujo. Tiek kartų, kiek reikės.”