I prefer, in a word, the republican system, because it comes up more nearly to God&#39;s system.

America, the temple of invention and industry, doesn&#39;t make things anymore.

The real cause of poverty today – now that it is avoidable – is the unchecked power of the state against poor people without rights, says William Easterly.

Sometimes in the shadows the view would light up, usually when he was smoking weed, as if the contrast knob of Creation had been messed with just enough to give everything an underglow, a luminous edge, and promise that the night was about to turn epic somehow.

Written By Thomas Pynchon

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