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Probably the most extreme form of inequality is between people who are alive and people who are dead.

"Upgrade or Die" by George Packer, www.newyorker.com. March 4, 2013.

Businesses are not paid to reform customers. They are paid to satisfy customers.

Peter Drucker (2014). “Innovation and Entrepreneurship”, p.236, Routledge

Performance's being...becomes itself through disappearance.

"Unmarked: The Politics of Performance". Book by Ann O'Day Maples Professor of the Arts/Professor of English Peggy Phelan, Peggy Phelan, 1993.

Reforms in Russia are very tragic, but they always end in a farce.

Oscar Wilde (2014). “Wilde Complete Plays: Lady Windermere's Fan; An Ideal Husband; The Importance of Being Earnest; A Woman of No Importance; Salome; The Duchess of Padua; Vera, or the Nihilists; A Florentine Tragedy; La Sainte Courtisane”, p.570, Bloomsbury Publishing

I must say to myself that I ruined myself, and that nobody great or small can be ruined except by his own hand. I am quite ready to say so. ... Terrible as was what the world did to me, what I did to myself was far more terrible still.

Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: De profundis, "Epistola : in carcere et vinculis"”, p.162, Oxford University Press on Demand

Death is the mother of forms.

Octavio Paz, Eliot Weinberger, G. Aroul (1984). “Selected Poems”, p.133, New Directions Publishing

Most of us employ the Internet not to seek the best information, but rather to select information that confirms our prejudices .

"Would You Slap Your Father? If So, You’re a Liberal" by Nicholas Kristof, www.nytimes.com. May 27, 2009.

While in theory randomness is an intrinsic property, in practice, randomness is incomplete information.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2010). “The Black Swan: Second Edition: The Impact of the Highly Improbable Fragility"”, p.198, Random House