"Generations of human beings were transformed into machines in the relentless pursuit of material wealth: We lived to work."

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Source : Jeremy Rifkin (2011). “The Third Industrial Revolution: How Lateral Power Is Transforming Energy, the Economy, and the World”, p.269, Macmillan

Jeremy Rifkin

#Generations Quotes #Machines Quotes #Wealth Quotes

“Marijuana has killed far fewer people than swimming pools; itâ€™s the war against it that does all the violence.”
“What you think of a name depends so much on the people you know by that name.”
“The object of this competition is not to be mean to the losers but to find a winner. The process makes you mean because you get frustrated. Kids turn up unrehearsed, wearing the wrong clothes, singing out of tune and you can either say, "Good job" and patronize them or tell them the truth, and sometimes the truth is perceived as mean.”
“How well that human potential has been fulfilled over the years by people with a deep and abiding connection to Pennsylvania.”
“You constantly hear about voter fraud... but you don't see huge amounts of vote fraud out there.”
“Arise Evans had a fungous nose, and said, it was revealed to him, that the King's hand would cure him, and at the first coming of King Charles II into St. James's Park, he kissed the King's hand, and rubbed his nose with it; which disturbed the King, but cured him.”

Source : John Aubrey (1857). “Miscellanies Upon Various Subjects”, p.128
“A lot of the artists that are coming out right now are sticking to the formula of guns, drugs, money, all that other stuff. I'm not from the 'hood, I've never been arrested, I never shot anybody, I never sold drugs,”
“If you don't give up your hopes and dreams, then there will always be a good ending.”

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