"The transfer of [...] capabilities from various professional classes to the general public is epochal."

-- Clay Shirky

#Class Quotes #Capability Quotes #Transfers Quotes

“Not counting 'Small Steps,' I think 'Holes' is my best book, in terms of plot, and setting, and the way the story revealed itself. It hasn't changed my life, other than that I have more money than I did before I wrote it. I'm still too close to 'Small Steps' to compare it to 'Holes.'”
“Pistachio nuts, the red ones, cure any problem.”

Source : Paula Danziger (2006). “The Pistachio Prescription”, p.12, Penguin
“It is not among the palm trees that I wish to die, but among the poor who are Jesus Christ.”
“If you want me you're going to have to come and get me.”

Source : Tiffanie DeBartolo (2005). “How to Kill a Rock Star”, p.396, Sourcebooks, Inc.
“Buy a steak for a player on another club after the game, but don't even speak to him on the field. Get out there and beat them to death.”
“Your life works to the degree you keep your agreements.”
“The politics of the family are the politics of a nation. Just as the authoritarian family is the authoritarian state in microcosm, the democratic family is the best training ground for life in a democracy.”

Source : Letty Cottin Pogrebin (1983). “Family politics: love and power on an intimate frontier”, McGraw-Hill Companies
“The nobler and more perfect a thing is, the later and slower it is in arriving at maturity. A man reaches the maturity of his reasoning powers and mental faculties hardly before the age of twenty-eight; a woman at eighteen.”

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