„People nowadays think that scientists exist to instruct them, poets, musicians, etc. to give them pleasure. The idea that these have something to teach them“

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

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„I have spent the best years of my life giving people the lighter pleasures, helping them have a good time, and all I get is abuse, the existence of a hunted man.“
— Al Capone
„I suppose it is because nearly all children go to school nowadays and have things arranged for them that they seem so forlornly unable to produce their own ideas.“
— Agatha Christie
„People don't have fortunes left them in that style nowadays; men have to work and women to marry for money. It's a dreadfully unjust world.“
— Louisa May Alcott