"If you wear a suit, you can talk to anybody."

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Lewis H. Lapham

“Stores are the same everywhere; small downtowns are done. Not just in America, but globally. You hear the same music on every station, all our building materials look the same, and all our clothes look the same. But I thought that it couldn't be that simple, because Arizona is not Minnesota. There is this other reality, which is a reality of landscape.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“The only way to tell the truth is to speak with kindness. Only the words of a loving man can be heard.”
“A gourmet can tell from the flavor whether a woodcock's leg is the one on which the bird is accustomed to roost.”
“We did like 12 shows, then we did the entire Ozzfest with the first half completely booked; then we did the second half with a couple days off here and there”
“Now, people ask me all the time how we got four surplus budgets in a row. What new ideas did we bring to Washington? I always give a one-word answer: Arithmetic.”
“Neoliberalization has not been very effective in revitalizing global capital accumulation, but it has succeeded remarkably well in restoring, or in some instances (as in Russia and China) creating, the power of an economic elite. The theoretical utopianism of neoliberal argument has, I conclude, primarily worked as a system of justification and legitimation for whatever needed to be done to achieve this goal.”

Source : David Harvey (2007). “A Brief History of Neoliberalism”, p.27, OUP Oxford
“They swallow God without thinking, they swallow country without thinking. Soon they forget how to think, they let others think for them.”
“But things change, of course, and so do the ways in which people see themselves.”

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