“Another friend of mine used to maintain that airplanes stayed up in the air only because people believed—against reason—that they could fly: without that collective delusion sustaining them, they would instantly plummet to earth.”
Margaret Atwood
Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth
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