"In World War II the hostility and the exasperation resulting from the statification of the economy and the strain of the war have been directed as much against the government as against private capital."

-- C. L. R. James

#War Quotes #Government Quotes #World Quotes

“I like coming up with these spectacular extravaganzas that will, hopefully, totally blow people away. But I also like the intimacy of stopping it all and sitting at the edge of the stage and connecting with individual people in the audience.”
“Sociology should... be thought of as a science of action-of the ultimate common value element in its relations to the other elements of action.”

Source : Talcott Parsons (1967). “Structure of Social Action”, Free Pr
“Beware the cute, hot guy who kind of reminds you of the parent you don't get along with: your cold, distant father who left when you were a kid or your hot-tempered mother whom you could never please.”
“Demonreach only wants Harry to see what's going on." "Why doesn't it just marry him?" Thomas muttered under his breath. "It sort of did," I said. "My brother the... geosexual?”
“But my shift to the serious study of economics gradually weakened my belief in Major Douglas's A+B theorem, which was replaced in my thought by the expression MV = PT.”
“Failure is not an option for me. Success is all I envision”
“The Expulsion from Paradise is eternal in its principal aspect: this makes it irrevocable, and our living in this world inevitable, but the eternal nature of the process has the effect that not only could we remain forever in Paradise, but that we are currently there, whether we know it or not.”
“Everything contains its antithesis.”

Source : Interview with Rosanna Greenstreet, www.theguardian.com. October 5, 2007.

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