“landlords... grow richer, as it were in their sleep, without working, risking, or economizing."”

“Hunter couldn't stop working. McCumber remembered Hunter working nine days without sleep.”

“there is no gain without risk, perhaps no risk without love.”

“Even if work were not an economic necessity, it is a spiritual necessity.”

“A person needs new experiences. They jar something deep inside, allowing you to grow. Without them, it sleeps- seldom to awaken. The sleeper must awaken.”

“The landlords are receiving eight millions a year by way of royalties. What for? They never deposited the coal in the earth. It was not they who planted these great granite rocks in Wales. Who laid the foundations of the mountains? Was it the landlord? And yet he, by some divine right, demands as his toll—for merely the right for men to risk their lives in hewing these rocks—eight millions a year.”

“In the morning when I closed my eyesYou were sleeping in paradiseAnd while the room was growing lightI was holding still with all my might”

“Even if smog were a risk to human life, we must remember that life in nature, without technology, is wholesale death.”

“When action grows unprofitable, gather information; when information grows unprofitable, sleep.”

“The dilemma of a socialized system is that the information flow overwhelms a centralized system if it is open to new ideas and data, that closing the system and forcing the plan to work forecloses alternatives and risks unhedged mistakes, and that decentralizing without real markets poses the problems discussed by Hayek. These information problems permeate virtually all economic processes.”