Quotes
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Hilaire Belloc

"Coupled with Usury, Unrestricted Competition destroys the small man for the profit of the great and in so doing produces that mass of economically unfree citizens whose very political freedom comes in question because it has no foundation in any economic freedom, that is, any useful proportion of property to support it. Political freedom without economic freedom is almost worthless, and it is because the modern proletariat has the one kind of freedom without the other that its rebellion is now threatening the very structure of the modern world."

Source : "The Red Association" by Mikhail Bakunin, www.marxists.org. 1870.

Hilaire Belloc

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“You cannot count on the physical proximity of someone you love, all the time. A seed that sprouts at the foot of its parent tree remains stunted until it is transplanted. Rama will be in my care, and he will be quite well. But ultimately, he will leave me too. Every human being, when the time comes, has to depart to seek his fulfillment in his own way.”

Source : "The Ramayana: A Shortened Modern Prose Version of the Indian Epic". Book by R. K. Narayan, 1972.
“In Colombia today we have 16% of the population, which is a very small amount of the population owning 90% of the land and 20 years ago it wasn't like that.”

Source : Source: bigthink.com
“It's the heart afraid of breaking that never learns to dance.”
“People should always be wary of that because the precedent is set. And it's so much easier to build on a foundation than it is something that doesn't exist. So you see it as something that's happening to people that are not you. And then it expands, and it expands further. And then, one day, you're on a registry.”
“There is nothing to say because I know everything about him. I raised him. I know what's a charade, and I know what's not a charade. I'll leave it at that.”
“I never dream in French, but certain French words seem better or more fun than English words - like 'pois chiches' for chick peas!”

Source : Our Live Chat with Lydia Davis, www.newyorker.com. December 10, 2009.
“There's no reason that patients can't have electronic access to their complete medical history... Just as people can check their bank account information online or using their ATM card, patients who want to should have electronic access to their medical records...”
“If you can have a show that has quite strong morals and cover important themes but be able to put them out to a broad audience, that's an interesting thing.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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