"For capitalism flourishes best in a mobile and egalitarian society"

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Source : Francis Fukuyama (2006). “The End of History and the Last Man”, p.120, Simon and Schuster

Francis Fukuyama

#Capitalism Quotes

“Sex is interesting, but it's not totally important. I mean it's not even as important (physically) as excretion. A man can go seventy years without a piece of ass, but he can die in a week without a bowel movement.”
“I think the Nobel Prize helps for a number of reasons. Number one, if I can be frank, there is these people will feel by getting a Nobel Prize that I'm one of them, that it is possible to contribute on the world map of science and technology. And the other thing also which I'm hoping for is that the government in Egypt is willing and interested in promoting science and technology and this is an ideal time now to be able to do something.”

Source : Source: www.nobelprize.org
“I was selected to be an astronaut on a military program called the Manned Orbiting Laboratory back in '67. That program got cancelled in '69 and NASA ended up taking half of us.”

Source : "STS-1 25th Anniversary Interview with Bob Crippen". Interview with George Diller, www.nasa.gov. April 12, 2006.
“Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity.”

Source : Charles Mingus' statement in Mainliner Magazine (July 1977); later quoted in Olivia Bertagnolli "Creativity and the writing process" (p. 182), 1982.
“Some are so uncharitable as to think all women bad, and others are so credulous as to believe they are all good. All will grant her corporeal frame more wonderful and more beautiful than man's. And can we think God would put a worse soul into a better body?”
“Evangelical agencies with ready funding may have too little depth and vision to cope with the current conflict. God's kingdom is built not on perpetual motion, one-liners, and flashbulbs but on Christ.”
“The choices that make a significant difference in our lives are the tough ones. They're not often fun or easy, but they're the ones we have to make, and each is a deliberate step toward better understanding who we really are.”

Source : Alexandra Stoddard, Marc Romano (2013). “Making Choices”, p.19, Harper Collins
“A holy and heavenly life is a continual pain to the consciences of sinners around you and continually solicits them to change their course.”

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