The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction, not a destination.

The first man who， having fenced in a piece of land， said 'This is mine，' and found people naïve enough to believe him， that man was the true founder of civil society.

"Memory is a strange thing. It doesn't work like I thought it did. We are so used to thinking of it as a camera or a tape recorder, but it's not like that at all. It's more like a painter. It creates a picture, but it's not always the same picture."

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