"Efficiency obliterates identity"

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Source : William Greider (2003). “The Soul of Capitalism: Opening Paths to a Moral Economy”, p.54, Simon and Schuster

William Greider

#Identity Quotes #Efficiency Quotes

“Canadians are fond of a good disaster, especially if it has ice, water, or snow in it. You thought the national flag was about a leaf, didn't you? Look harder. It's where someone got axed in the snow.”
“When I'm standing at the Pearly Gates, I want to say to God, 'Don't look at the records. Look at my family. I'm much prouder about that part.'”
“Sometimes you can know things. Things about yourself. Things from before you can remember.”
“Well, I've always just - I've never really gone out looking for work. I always waited for it to sort of hit me on the head.”
“Over the last few years, the world has become a smaller and more integrated place with technology that is leveling the playing field like never before.”
“I live on a boat two months out of the year, and if I did not have that then I don't know how I'd be able to handle all this.... I am a very intense person on stage. I have to remember why I am there, what I am doing. You can spend all day backstage preparing for the show and lose sight of why you are doing this. Off stage, I am a very simple kind of guy. I live my life in flip-flops.”
“When two tigers fight, one is certain to be maimed, and one to die.”
“Mr. Speaker, I rise today in support of the definition of a marriage as between one man and one woman.”

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