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This is what happens when you make a habit of speaking categorically. If you don't give other people the courtesy of nuance, you don't get to claim it for yourself.
But if a man doesn't have a job or an income, he has neither life, nor liberty, nor the pursuit of happiness.
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For in a Capitalist society, money is happiness and vice versa.
This is what happens when you make a habit of speaking categorically. If you don't give other people the courtesy of nuance, you don't get to claim it for yourself.