"The real scientific study of the distribution of wealth has, we must confess, scarcely begun. The conventional academic study of the so-called theory of distribution into rent, interest, wages, and profits is only remotely related to the subject. This subject, the causes and cures for the actual distribution of capital and income among real persons, is one of the many now in need of our best efforts as scientific students of society."

-- Irving Fisher

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“I love all my children, but some of them I don't like.”
“If you are sad, ask yourself why you are sad. Then pick up the phone and call someone and tell him the answer to the question. If you don't know anyone, call the operator and tell him. Most people don't know that the operator has to listen, it is a law. Also, the postman is not allowed to go inside your house, but you can talk to him on public property for up to four minutes or until he wants to go, whichever comes first.”
“As always, I am saved by the inability of living creatures to believe anything that might cause the walls of their little mental assumptions to crumble.”
“I think you can get happiness through making a real difference in other people's lives by setting out to make other people's lives better and setting out to right the wrongs in the world.”
“There is a number missing. I can see it.”
“Life brings with it strangeness and surprises and upsets”
“a labor victory must be economic and it must be revolutionizing.”

Source : Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, Rosalyn Fraad Baxandall (1987). “Words on fire: the life and writing of Elizabeth Gurley Flynn”, Rutgers Univ Pr
“If you can allow colour to breathe, to occupy its own space, to play its own game in its unstable way, it's wanton behaviour, so to speak. It is promiscuous like nothing.”

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