"Equality of opportunity is meaningless for those who do not have the capabilities to take advantage of it."

-- Ha-Joon Chang

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“It the British System is the most gigantic system of slavery the world has yet seen, and therefore it is that freedom gradually disappears from every country over which England is enabled to obtain control.”

Source : Henry Charles Carey (1853). “The slave trade, domestic and foreign: why it exists, and how it may be extinguished”, p.364
“The fact is that gardening, more than most of our other activities except sometimes love-making, confronts us with the inexplicable.”
“You must acquire the trick of ignoring those who do not like you. In my experience, those who do not like you fall into two categories: the stupid, and the envious. The stupid will like you in five years time, the envious never.”

Source : "The Libertine". www.imdb.com. 2004.
“Lack of money always means a surplus of creativity, in the best case.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“Science fiction is a kind of archaeology of the future.”
“I've run for office, and I've stood on street corners, while people walked by me and didn't want to talk to me, and did not think I was a credible candidate. And then four years later, I was nearly elected mayor of San Francisco, so I know what it takes.”

Source : "All Hope is Local: Quit Whining and Run for Office" by Allison Kilkenny, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 2, 2008.
“It's not how you start, but it's how you finish.”
“When a battle for suffrage is conducted, it should only be conducted according to socialist principles, and therefore with the demand of universal suffrage for women and men.”

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