"It has been estimated that even in the absence of net investment, the mere substitution of modern machinery for worn-out equipment in the United States would cause an annual productivity increase of approximately 1.5 percent."

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Source : Paul A. Baran (1968). “Political Econ of Growth”, p.88, NYU Press

Paul A. Baran

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“Our own theological Church, as we know, has scorned and vilified the body till it has seemed almost a reproach and a shame to have one, yet at the same time has credited it with power to drag the soul to perdition.”

Source : "Woman and Her Era". Book by Eliza Farnham, pt. 1, ch. 1, 1864.
“First drafts are for learning what your story is about.”
“When I was growing up, we used to play basketball in a park that was never shoveled when it snowed. The basketball rims were never fixed. And we understood then that there was a relationship between public policy and our quality of life.”
“TOPER. Yesterday I carried to wait on a Relation of ours that has a Parrot, and whilst I was discoursing about some private Business, she converted the Bird, and now it talks of nothing but the Light of the Spirit, and the Inward man.”
“The police can go to downtown Harlem and pick up a kid with a joint in the streets. But they can't go into the elegant apartments and get a stockbroker who's sniffing cocaine.”
“Mommy smoked but she didn't want us to. She saw smoke coming out of the barn one time, so we got whipped.”
“In real life, people don't try to live dramatically, people try to live in a light way. People try to laugh.”

Source : "'Big Love' cast talks it up". Interview with Kate Aurthur, articles.latimes.com. March 1, 2009.
“She refers to her past as the time before she was "blown away.”

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