I can understand where the oil company wants to deduct the cost of drilling a well. That&#39;s one of the tax breaks for oil companies - the subsidies - they get to deduct the cost of the well the year you drill.

Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant.

Success is always less funny than failure.

There are no choices without personal freedom, Buckeroo. It's not us who are dead inside. These things you find so weak and contemptible in us---these are just the hazards of being free.

Written By David Foster Wallace

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