"Obviously, you can't operate a system at 100 percent capacity. You need room for growth. And because there are peak times, you need surge capacity. But it is easier to reduce and manage excess capacity in larger units than smaller, especially when you have a diversity of users who have different peak periods and different growth rates. That's why the utility model is intriguing."

-- Steven Pearlstein

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“A free society depends upon a high degree of mutual trust. The public will not give that trust to officials who are not seen to be impartially dedicated to the general public interest, nor will they give trust to those high in government who violate the rule of law they ask citizens to obey at the expense of self-interest, or to those who present government as the place where one feathers his own nest, [or] exchanges favors with friends and former associates.”
“I want to be America's Margaret Thatcher. I will be the next Iron Lady.”
“Family prayer is the greatest deterrent to sin, and hence the most beneficent provider of joy and happiness. The old saying is yet true: 'The family that prays together stays together.'”
“Chocolate is the greatest gift to women ever created, next to the likes of Paul Newman and Gene Kelly. It's something that should be had on a daily basis.”
“Well lately I have listening to a lot of movie soundtracks.”
“Past persons of Scottishness in contact with mastermind of supernatural persuasion in London, aka Agent Doom.â€™ Floote moved on to the third bit of paper. â€œ â€˜Lady K says Agent Doom assisted depraved Plan of Action. May have all been his idea.â€™ Moving on to the last one, he read out, "Summer permits Scots to expose more knee than lady of refinement should have to withstand. Hairmuffs much admired. Yours etc., Puff Bonnet.”
“The opposite of consumption is not thrift - it is generosity.”

Source : Raj Patel (2009). “The Value Of Nothing: How to Reshape Market Society and Redefine Democracy”, p.29, Granta
“The love of pelf increases with the pelf. [Lat., Crescit amor nummi quantum ipsa pecunia crescit.]”

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