"Freedom of enterprise was from the beginning not altogether a blessing. As the liberty to work or to starve, it spelled toil, insecurity, and fear for the vast majority of the population. If the individual were no longer compelled to prove himself on the market, as a free economic subject, the disappearance of this freedom would be one of the greatest achievements of civilization."

-- Herbert Marcuse

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“People talk about nature as a mother, but to me she's always been Medea, ready and willing to slaughter her children.”

Source : Rachel Caine (2011). “Ill Wind”, p.24, Allison & Busby
“There are no simple answers in life. There is a good and bad in everyone and everything. No decision is made without consequence. No road is taken that doesn't lead to another. What's important is that those roads always be kept open, for there's no telling what wonder they might lead to.”

Source : D.J. MacHale (2009). “Pendragon: The Soldiers of Halla”, p.379, Simon and Schuster
“I've admired Bill Kauffman's books for years . . . appealing, elegantly written, and entirely American.”
“We fail to prevail with unconverted men because of our more fundamental failure to prevail with God in prayer.”
“Imagination is no longer conceived as simplistically opposed to perception and reason; rather, perception and reason are recognised as being always informed by the imagination.”

Source : Richard Tarnas (2010). “The Passion Of The Western Mind: Understanding the Ideas That Have Shaped Our World View”, p.405, Random House
“The largest factor in predicting group intelligence was the equality of conversational turn taking; groups where a few people dominated the conversation were less collectively intelligent than those with a more equal distribution of conversational turn taking.”

Source : "Social Physics: How Social Networks Can Make Us Smarter". Book by Alex Pentland, January 30, 2014.
“Goals are new, forward-moving objectives. They magnetize you towards them.”
“Inflation is really like drugging the baby universe with speed. The supercool union of the hitherto unfriendly gods was blessed by amphetamine, and this made the universe inflate rather than just expand. The early orgy of expansion in the universe comes to an abrupt end as soon as the supercooled particle stuff finally freezes.”

Source : Joao Magueijo (2011). “Faster Than The Speed Of Light: The Story of a Scientific Speculation”, p.152, Random House

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