"The multinational corporation and international production reflect a world in which capital and technology have become increasingly mobile, while labor has remained relatively immobile."

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Source : Robert Gilpin (2016). “The Political Economy of International Relations”, p.260, Princeton University Press

Robert Gilpin

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“I've remembered that most of life is about small, essential connections, so unobtrusive, so elastic, that you scarcely realize they're actually holding you together. The big ones-the great, grand emotional bonds-those are the ones that break, the ones that fail you, the ones that give way and send you careening toward the foot of the bleak and jagged canyon. It's the tough, gnarled, unadorned ties that really do bind, that never let you fall all the way down into darkness.”

Source : Sharon Shinn (2012). “The Shape of Desire”, p.54, Penguin
“I'm a very restless person. I'm always doing something. The creative process never stops.”
“There are a couple of strategies for writing about an absence or writing about a loss. One can create the person that was lost, develop the character of the fiancee. There's another strategy that one can employ, maybe riskier... Make the reader suffer the loss of the character in a more literal way.”
“Cicero called Aristotle a river of flowing gold, and said of Plato's Dialogues, that if Jupiter were to speak, it would be in language like theirs.”
“No band is special, no player royalty.”
“The life of the city cat is short but so sophisticated.”
“Police do not work at the immediate direction of the communities they serve, but through their institutional connections. Police departments may develop structures, modi operandi, and cultures that are ethically problematic.”
“Let those who follow me continue to build with the plumb of honor, the level of truth, and the square of integrity, education, courtesy and mutuality.”

Source : John Wanamaker (1923). “Maxims of Life and Business”

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