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From the page: "By giving poor families a per-child tax credit, we are doing a good thing and a bad thing. The good thing is that we are paying for poor childrens' meals, clothing, etc. The bad thing is supporting a system which financially encourages poor families to have more children than they can support themselves."

From the page: "Why is it so hard to give? And what I came up with is that you always want something in return. You want something in return for everything you do. And when you don't get that something in return, then it hits you. Oh, yeah. Oh, this is not such a good thing. And that's hard. Even when you try to do a selfless action--by the very definition, when you're trying to do a selfless action, it's not selfless because there's effort. But there's a certain percentage of action which is selfless. Let's say even just 10 percent. So when you do a selfless action, you realize this dichotomy between selfish and selfless. And it's very clear."

From the page: "We look for that which is entertaining about any phenomenon rather than qualities of depth, social significance, spiritual resonance, beauty, etc. In this sense, TV doesn't imitate life, but social life now aspires to imitate TV.

Further, we become greedy. Not greedy in the traditional sense in reference to material wealth; rather, we experience a greed to be entertained. It's not just a need for entertainment, but a downright greed for entertainment, and it becomes a 24-hour obsession. In the absence of entertainment, we usually entertain ourselves with plans for future entertainment."

From the page: "For now �" just three things that need to be done.

I�m not even talking about getting you to complete projects. I�m talking about choosing individual activities that will just take a little bit of time and energy to do. These will provide you with the satisfaction you�ll need at the end of a chaotic, unproductive day: �oewell, at least I did those three things”."

From the page: "Things (and people) almost always work better when you stop messing with them. All that probing and peering, opening things up and fiddling to try to improve how they work, checking and supervising, absorb time and effort that would be better spent on doing the job itself. If you want results, focus on that and leave the rest alone."