“Sympathy for victims is always counter-balanced by an equal and opposite feeling of resentment towards them.”
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Sympathy for victims is always counter-balanced by an equal and opposite feeling of resentment towards them.
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No collection of people who are all waiting for the same thing are capable of holding a natural conversation. Even if the thing they are waiting for is only a taxi.
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The earth only has so much bounty to offer and inventing ever larger and more notional prices for that bounty does not change its real value.
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We've all got to look at ourselves, start with yourself, that's all you can do. I believe that we can act responsibly as a group, it's just that there are vested interests telling us not to bother.
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I try hard not to preach, but I get carried away, which is a mistake, but it's a risk worth running.
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