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“What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite.”
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“That is why we may say that the historical development of capitalism has involved the thrust towards the commodification of everything.”
Source : Immanuel Maurice Wallerstein (1995). “Capistalist Civilisation”, p.16, Verso
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“The heart of another is a dark forest.”
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“"Shoe" just meant you were a big jock on campus no matter what field you were in.”
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“The UN Declaration of Human Rights laid down what any person might reasonably expect, yet there are remarkably few people who enjoy these rights. With cameras in the hands of activists and meaningful distribution of those images, we will witness what really goes on in this world and hopefully want to change it.”
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“Political leaders have to withstand headwinds.”
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“After all, when you're talking about an authority figure oppressing against people, it's the people that hold that authority figure up. If you want to get free of this bondage, then we need to think about ways to free ourselves, rather than looking to the oppressors to free us.”
Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
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“Three principles - the conformability of nature to herself, the applicability of the criterion of simplicity, and the "unreasonable effectiveness" of certain parts of mathematics in describing physical reality - are thus consequences of the underlying law of the elementary particles and their interactions. Those three principles need not be assumed as separate metaphysical postulates. Instead, they are emergent properties of the fundamental laws of physics.”
Source : "Murray Gell-Mann: Selected Papers". Book by Murray Gell-Mann and Harald Fritzsch, 2010.
