"Sometimes the lack of substantive freedoms relates directly to economic poverty, which robs people of the freedom to satisfy hunger; or to achieve sufficient nutrition, or to obtain remedies for treatable illnesses or the opportunity to be adequatley clothed or sheltered, or to enjoy clean water or sanitary facilities."

-- Amartya Sen

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“Through exploitation of its influence over global financial affairs, the United States has been able to cover the costs of its hegemonic position, preserve a false domestic prosperity, and mask the consequences of its relative political and economic decline.”

Source : Robert Gilpin (2016). “The Political Economy of International Relations”, p.308, Princeton University Press
“The old Victorian laws against homosexuality were still on the statute books until the early 1990s. As a gay man living in Ireland, I and people like me found it easy to feel less than citizens.”
“We are identifying with what is passing so fear comes.Â We are trying to make steady and permanentÂ what is by nature impermanent.”
“I used to be a cheerleader, but fighting just seemed more, "me". So I went that route.”
“People say to you, 'you've changed', or something like that, well, I hope, for the sake of God, that you have changed, because I don't want to be the same person all my life. I want to be growing, I want to be expanding. I want to be changing. Because animate things change, inanimate things don&'t change. Dead things don't change. And the heart should be alive, it should be changing, it should be moving, it should be growing, its knowledge should be expanding.”
“It will not do to investigate the subject of religion too closely, as it is apt to lead to infidelity.”
“The true poet has no choice of material. The material plainly chooses him, not he it.”
“I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry.”

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