"After the collapse of socialism, capitalism remained without a rival. This unusual situation unleashed its greedy and - above all - its suicidal power. The belief is now that everything - and everyone - is fair game."

-- Gunter Grass

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“The most important things in life happen over conversations while eating.”
“In essence, science is a perpetual search for an intelligent and integrated comprehension of the world we live in.”
“I have never doubted that religious phenomena are only to be understood on the pattern of the individual neurotic symptoms familiar to us.”
“Every relationship between persons causes a picture of each to take form in the mind of the other, and this picture evidently is in reciprocal relationship with that personal relationship.”

Source : Georg Simmel (2008). “Englischsprachige Veröffentlichungen: 1893 - 1910”
“I'd rather have a part where you walk into a room and you leave. That's perfect for me.”
“Studies have shown that the terms girl and lady have pejorative connotations: They conjure images of someone weaker and lazier; someone more nervous, afraid, dependent, immature, and inconsiderate; someone less sexy, intelligent, and certainly less charismatic than 'woman.' Indeed, the term woman is overwhelmingly interpreted as more favorable and is most often used to describe adult females who deserve respect.”
“But the thought leaders on talk radio and Fox do more than shape opinion. Backed by their own wing of the book-publishing industry and supported by think tanks that increasingly function as public-relations agencies, conservatives have built a whole alternative knowledge system, with its own facts, its own history, its own laws of economics.”
“The concept of paying one-hundred-and-something times earnings for any company for me is just anathema. Having said that, at the end of the day, your job is to buy what goes up and to sell what goes down so really who gives a damn about PE's?”

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