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Most business meetings involve one party elaborately suppressing a wish to shout at the other: 'just give us the money'.

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Rather than getting more spoilt with age, as difficulties pile up, epiphanies of gratitude abound.

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Whatever modern democracies may tell themselves about their commitment to free speech and to diversity of opinion, the values of a given society will ...more

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Wealth is not an absolute. It is relative to desire. Every time we yearn for something we cannot afford, we grow poorer, whatever our resources. And e...more

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Blessed with riches and possibilities far beyond anything imagined by ancestors who tilled the unpredictable soil of medieval Europe, modern populatio...more

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What a peculiar civilisation this was: inordinately rich, yet inclined to accrue its wealth through the sale of some astonishingly small and only dist...more

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It seems, in fact, that the more advanced a society is, the greater will be its interest in ruined things, for it will see in them a redemptively sobe...more