"It is not surprising that liberals believed in progress. The idea of progress justified the entire transition from feudalism to capitalism. It legitimated the breaking of the remaining opposition to the commodification of everything, and it tended to wipe away all the negatives of capitalism on the grounds that the benefits outweighed, by far, the harm."

-- Immanuel Wallerstein

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“I've never studied the Japanese. That's something that must have crept in there. But the Japanese are my biggest clients. They seem to like the elemental quality.”
“I think that's quite a good message, it's not about being the best, it's about doing your best.”

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“I will be as callous and uncaring as you can imagine, I have no interest in paying for your health care. I`d hate to see you get cancer, but that`s your problem, not mine.”
“Make your life about something bigger than your life.”
“It is with jealousy as with the gout. When such distempers are in the blood, there is never any security against their breaking out, and that often on the slightest occasions, and when least suspected.”
“I made a living being a background singer for years.”
“It's an hour during the week where you can just slow down.”
“Don't worry about what the people say; be yourself, say what you want to say WITH respect.”

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