"For me, this world of questions and the provisional, this chase after an answer that was always put off to the next day, all that was euphoric. I lived in the future."

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Source : François Jacob (1995). “The Statue Within: An Autobiography”, p.9, CSHL Press

Francois Jacob

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“Workers do not strike every day, they cannot do that the way they function in the capitalist economy. The way they have to live by selling their labor power makes that impossible.”

Source : Ernest Mandel (1994). “Revolutionary Marxism and social reality in the 20th century: collected essays”, Humanities Press Intl
“Just as the individual is not alone in the group, nor anyone in society alone among the others, so man is not alone in the universe.”

Source : Claude Levi-Strauss (2012). “Tristes Tropiques”, p.390, Penguin
“A champion is someone who does not settle for that day's practice, that day's competition, that day's performance. They are always striving to be better. They don't live in the past.”
“The calculus of utility aims at supplying the ordinary wants of man at the least cost of labour.”

Source : William Stanley Jevons (1871). “The Theory of Political Economy”, p.32
“I am more interested in what moves people, than how they move.”
“Try to have as diverse group of friends as possible and don't get into the the clique scenario.”
“Anyone can rehearse and play constantly any song in the world.”
“Really knowing is good. Not knowing, or refusing to know, is bad, or amoral, at least. You can't act if you don't know. Acting without knowing takes you right off the cliff.”

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