It has always seemed strange to
me... the things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty,
understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And
those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism
and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality
of the first they love the produce of the second. John Steinbeck
