"We want capitalism and market forces to be the slave of democracy rather than the opposite."

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Source : "Economist says U.S. inequality reaching "spectacular" heights". Interview with Alain Sherter, www.cbsnews.com. June 5, 2014.

Thomas Piketty

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“When one's thoughts are neither frivolous nor flippant, when one's thoughts are neither stiff-necked nor stupid, but rather, are harmonious -- they habitually render physical calm and deep insight.”
“I'm not a person who can scream and shout so this is my only outlet. It's all done very logically.”
“If in heroic conduct, whether of warriors, philosophers or scientists, we see what is of essential nature, then we know that all heroism groups itself around a supreme value. This has always been the idea of honour, spiritual and mental. But the idea of honour, like its corporeal representatives, was involved in a war of soul and spirit against the values represented by alien races or the offspring of racial chaos.”

Source : "The Myth of the Twentieth Century". Book by Alfred Rosenberg, 1930.
“A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and in fleeing them the cowardice of the heart.”

Source : Pietro Aretino (1933). “The Works”
“There are a lot of things that I have not shared that I will never share. I do have a personal private life.”
“I try to be appreciative of what I have instead of bitter about what Iâ€™ve lost.”

Source : Jenny Lawson (2012). “Let's Pretend This Never Happened”, p.202, Penguin
“Give me good books, good conversations, and my Trek Y-Foil, and I shall want for nothing else.”
“Jesus, all for Jesus, all I am and have and ever hope to be. All of my ambitions, hopes and plans, I surrender these into Your hands... For it's only in Your will that I am free.”

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