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dog-eat-dog
adjective
UK /ˌdɒɡ.iːtˈdɒɡ/ US /ˌdɑː.ɡ.iːtˈdɑː.ɡ/
used to describe a situation in which people will do anything to be successful, even if what they do harms other people:
It’s a dog-eat-dog world out there.
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CryptoPunks: Details for Punk #3100
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To live off the backs of somebody = ทำนาบนหลังคน
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Authenticity: The Deep Hurt of Hiding Your True Self
“We’ve all heard the expression, “live your truth.” It means knowing and being yourself without the need for external validation.”
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“There’s two kinds of people in this world when you boil it all down. You got your talkers and you got your doers. Most people are just talkers, all they do is talk. But when it is all said and done, it’s the doers that change this world. And when they do that, they change us, and that’s why we never forget them. So which one are you? Do you just talk about it, or do you stand up and do something about it? Because believe you me, all the rest of it is just coffee house bullshit.”
— David Della Rocco
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The Shame of Poverty
Robert Walker
CHAPTER
1 The Origins of Poverty
This chapter argues that more attention should be paid to the psychosocial dimensions of poverty and notably to shame experienced as a result of living in poverty. Such shame is internally felt but structurally imposed by social institutions and by people who are not poor. Shame associated with poverty is painful, constrains human agency, and may contribute to the persistence of poverty. The chapter explains that poverty is a political construct and traces its origins to the writings of Confucius in China, to the Vedic culture of ancient India, and to philosophers and politicians in the ancient Graeco-Roman world. These ideas have been carried forward and only partially transformed by the vectors of religion and ideology including Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Confucianism, and secularism. Poverty has almost invariably been construed as a policy problem and very often as a consequence of the personal failings of the people affected by poverty.
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“Ideas are the root of creation.”
— Ernest Dimnet
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“Money doesn’t change men, it merely unmasks them. If a man is naturally selfish or arrogant or greedy, the money brings that out, that’s all.”
— Henry Ford
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How self-deception allows people to lie
We lie to ourselves to protect our self-images, which allows us to act immorally while maintaining a clear conscience. According to the very latest research, self-deception may have even evolved to help us to persuade others; if we start believing our own lies, it’s much easier to get other people to believe them, too.
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In my view, when people discuss digital culture or the art world, they often focus solely on Western culture.
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The documentary Roy Lichtenstein 1991