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But Willie belonged to the first generation of Vanderbilts to feel that their primary purpose in life was to consume, which wasn’t much of a purpose. In 1920, shortly before he died, he was quoted in the *New York Times* saying, “My life was never destined to be quite happy. . . . Inherited wealth is a real handicap to happiness. It is as certain a death to ambition as cocaine is to morality.”
Vanderbilt: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty
Anderson Cooper
Not every kind of hard is good. There is good pain and bad pain. You want the kind of pain you get from going running, not the kind you get from stepping on a nail.
Hackers & Painters - Big Ideas From the Computer Age
Paul Graham
World domination is such an ugly phrase. I prefer to call it world optimisation.
Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality
Eliezer Yudkowsky
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