David Graeber Quotes
Before we can apply the tools of anthropology to reconstruct the real history of money, we need to understand what's wrong with the conventional account.

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I think what television and video games do is reminiscent of drug addiction. There's a measure of reinforcement and a behavioural loop.
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California has the highest number of illegal immigrants residing in its borders. The estimated number of illegal alien residents in California was about 2.2 million, or nearly 32 percent of the total number of illegal immigrants in the United States.
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The stage is the best experience in the world. It's a great compliment to be able to share the music, because people can hear my album but they don't get to make the connection in the same way as when it's one-to-one.
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I love the early films of Al Pacino - 'Scarface,' 'Serpico' - and I love many science-fiction films.
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When you've got kids, you turn into Mom, and that's it.
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Old people are scary. And I have to face it. I am old and I am scary.
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This country is going to implode, or put another way, it's going to get crushed under the weight of poverty. You can't have one percent of the people who own and control more wealth than the other 90 percent of the population.
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Many people in this world are still so identified with every thought that arises in their head. There is not the slightest space of awareness there.
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I'll sit around and play my guitar; that's how I write tunes.
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I can only control what I can control.
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Scribbling things down is my therapy. I filter later.
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I'm definitely not a super great guitarist. Ultimately, I just write a lot of love songs.
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Cicero, in his treatise concerning the Nature of the Gods, having said that three Jupiters were enumerated by theologians, adds that the third was of Crete, the son of Saturn, and that his tomb is shown in that island.
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My brain is just so busy. I'm inattentive; I'm a daydreamer: the space cadet kind.
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I have a lot of faults. I often interrupt in meetings. I talk too loud. I talk too fast.
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Pictures are for entertainment, messages should be delivered by Western Union.
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Most interviewers are looking for a headline. They're not skilled. They're looking for shock value.
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I am convinced that only by applying the values of an entrepreneur to philanthropy will you ever be able to meet the needs of the greatest number of people.
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Anne is very forgiving. She doesn't care about money, being rich, or clothes. We never argued about finances.
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Fatigue makes cowards of us all.
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Independnce comes from you knowing who you are and you being happy with yourself.
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We do not take it lightly. We are powerful and able to defend ourselves.
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Before we can apply the tools of anthropology to reconstruct the real history of money, we need to understand what's wrong with the conventional account.