"A half century from now, our grandchildren are likely to look back at the era of mass employment in the market with the same sense of utter disbelief as we look upon slavery and serfdom in former times. The very idea that a human being's worth was measured almost exclusively by his or her productive output of goods and services and material wealth will seem primitive, even barbaric, and be regarded as a terrible loss of human value to our progeny living in a highly automated world where much of life is lived on the Collaborative Commons."

Source : Jeremy Rifkin (2014). “The Zero Marginal Cost Society: The Internet of Things, the Collaborative Commons, and the Eclipse of Capitalism”, p.117, Palgrave Macmillan

Jeremy Rifkin

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“I quit smoking well over twenty years ago.”
“It's never too late - never too late to start over, never too late to be happy.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“You can't condemn a whole group of people because of the actions of a few.”

Source : Justin Somper (2008). “Vampirates: Blood Captain”, p.80, Hachette UK
“Hongry rooster don't cackle w'en he fine a wum.”

Source : 'Uncle Remus: His Songs and His Sayings' (1880) 'Plantation Proverbs'
“Every golfer has at least 14 enemies: his clubs.”
“Living for Sabina meant seeing. Seeing is limited by two borders: strong light, which blinds, and total darkness. Perhaps that was what motivated Sabina's distaste for all extremism. Extremes mean borders beyond which life ends, and a passion for extremism, in art and in politics, is a veiled longing for death.”
“Breakfast - which I didn't mind skipping; if the eggs had been any runnier and the bacon a little less fatty, I could have raced them against each other around my plate.”

Source : Allen Steele (2008). “Galaxy Blues”, p.71, Penguin
“I knew Bill Cunninghamn personally, in the way that most people know him - you don't really know that much about him. So I had never been in his apartment, as most people hadn't. I really had no idea how he lived. I knew he lived in Carnegie Hall, but that was it, and I didn't really understand. I knew that he worked hard, I just didn't realize that that was what he does, that's basically all he does”

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