"The scarcity that afflicts the world is not the fault of either science or nature. The cause is defective economic institutions which abort technology's affluence producing potential."

-- Louis O. Kelso

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“The 1960s: A lot of people remember hating President Lyndon Baines Johnson and loving Janis Joplin and Jim Morrison, depending on the point of view. God rest their souls.”
“A good character is something you must make for yourself. It cannot be inherited from parents. It cannot be created by having extraordinary advantages. It isn't a gift of birth, wealth, talent or station. It is the result of your own endeavor. It is the reward that comes from living good principles and manifesting a virtuous and honorable life.”
“In the absence of truth, power is the only game in town.”
“Sorry, mom. Sorry, God.”
“My mother had a premonition and she felt that hairdressing would be very very good for me.”
“It is a ludicrous statistic plucked out of the air and used to justify a quite appalling attack on many of the poorest people in this country.”

Source : House of Commons, Oral Answers to Questions: International Development, www.publications.parliament.uk. July 8, 2015.
“I think the reason I've survived that long is because I've taken my work so seriously. Maybe sometimes too seriously, but it's always been important for me to do my best regardless of the film. I think the biggest compliment I get is when people on the street stop me and say they've liked the choices I've made.”

Source : "Best Is Yet to Come, Says Actor Matt Dillon". The Daily Oklahoman, May 02, 1997.
“I don't think writers choose the genre, the genre chooses us. I wrote out of the wish to create order out of disorder, the liking of a pattern.”

Source : "PD James, Queen of Detective Fiction: Interview". Interview With Jake Kerridge, www.telegraph.co.uk. September 26, 2009.

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