“Social scientists sometimes talk about the concept of 'identity.' It is the idea that you have a particular vision of the kind of person you are, and you feel awful when you do things that are out of line with that vision.”
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“Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants.”
“If morality represents an ideal world, then economics represents the actual world.”
“As W.C. Fields once said: a thing worth having is a thing worth cheating for.”