"Today, we have our own concentrations of economic power. Instead of Standard Oil, U.S. Steel, the Union Pacific Railroad, and J. P. Morgan and Company, we have Amazon, Google, Apple, Facebook, and Microsoft."

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Source : "Where Have All the Workers Gone?" by George Packer, www.newyorker.com. February 24, 2014.

George Packer

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“The 19th century was a century of empires, the 20th century was a century of nation states. The 21st century will be a century of cities.”
“It is a burden, I'm saying, to live where I live.”

Source : Tess Gallagher (1999). “At the Owl Woman Saloon”, Scribner
“We can no longer contemplate the subject - self - of contemporary art; it has been woven into infinite relationships, replaced by social movements, national image, and financial capital. The disappearance of the construction of the self of contemporary art makes it impossible to exist in the form of a subject. The subject of contemporary art that I speak of is a kind of naming event predicated upon the multiplicity of the environment. It includes politics, should have its own way of thinking, and can be perceived. ”
“First, accept sadness. Realize that without losing, winning isn't so great”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I am all for people having their heart in the right place; but the right place for a heart is not inside the head.”
“Since we shall love each other, I shall be great and you shall be rich.”
“Science is fundamentally a moral enterprise, following the moral imperative to seek the truth.”

Source : George Lakoff (2006). “Whose Freedom?: The Battle over America's Most Important Idea”, p.56, Macmillan
“A Fool with a Plan is better off than a Genius without a Plan!”

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