"Rising inequality isnâ€™t about who has the knowledge; itâ€™s about who has the power."

-- Paul Krugman

#Rising Quotes #Inequality Quotes

“Don't water your weeds.”
“One of the evils of paper money is that it turns the whole country into stock jobbers. The precariousness of its value and the uncertainty of its fate continually operate, night and day, to produce this destructive effect. Having no real value in itself it depends for support upon accident, caprice, and party; and as it is the interest of some to depreciate and of others to raise its value, there is a continual invention going on that destroys the morals of the country.”
“When our new armies are ready it seems folly to send them to Flanders, where they will chew barbed wire, or be wasted in futile frontal attacks.”
“Ordinary love is selfish, darkly rooted in desires and satisfactions. Divine love is without condition, without boundary, without change. The flux of the human heart is gone forever at the transfixing touch of pure love.”
“the distinction between rich nations and poor nations is one of the great dominant political and international themes of our century.”
“Living, just by itself --what a dirge that is! Life is a classroom and Boredom's the usher, there all the time to spy on you...”
“I haven't seen a player in this game, as long as I've been in it, that can't be pitched to... Barry is an outstanding ballplayer. I respect him an awful lot. I also have confidence in my pitchers that they can pitch to Barry Bonds and get him out.”
“The larger a star the shorter its life, but all the more fascinating its death. As it collapses within itâ€™s body, the infalling material can be no longer be compressed; the star is blown to pieces; its shattered mass realeases out ward at the speed of light.”

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