The variables vary too much and the constants aren't as constant as they seem.

I will do anything, including highway robbery and murder, to avoid leaving my children in poverty.

In order to eat, you have to be hungry. In order to learn, you have to be ignorant. Ignorance is a condition of learning. Pain is a condition of health. Passion is a condition of thought. Death is a condition of life.

The longer one is alone, the easier it is to hear the song of the earth.

The rapists of the intellectual world become politicians; the seducers become artists.

A Discordian is someone who sees windmills and thinks they might be giants

Money, after all, is an abstract artifact, like language - merely symbolized by the paper or coin or whatever. If you can fully grasp its abstractedness, especially in the computer age, it becomes quite clear that no group can monopolize this abstraction, except through a series of swindle. If the usurers had been bolder, they might have monopolized language as well as currency, and people would be saying we can't write more books because we don't have enough words, the way they now say we can't build starships, because we don't have enough money.