"Powerful people cannot afford to educate the people that they oppress, because once you are truly educated, you will not ask for power. You will take it."

-- John Henrik Clarke

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“As the mother of a grown son with a traumatic brain injury, I couldn't be more excited about the prospect of finding out how to repair even a small part of the damage that changed his life.”
“Humans want to create lots of cool stuff, then they want to see other people using that stuff. A lot.”

Source : "NOTABLE FOUNDERS: Ben Chestnut (MailChimp)". Busy Building Things Interview, blog.busybuildingthings.com.
“When Americans think of college these days, the first word that often comes to mind is 'debt.' And from 'debt' it's just a short hop to other unpleasant words, like 'payola,' 'kickback,' and 'bribery.'”
“I have never voted. Like most people I am utterly disenchanted by politics. Like most people I regard politicians as frauds and liars and the current political system as nothing more than a bureaucratic means for furthering the augmentation and advantages of economic elites.”
“I feel no shame about having paintings be as grandiose and ridiculous as possible.”

Source : Interview with Rachel Kushner, www.believermag.com. May 2003.
“The family is both a biological and a cultural group. It is biologic in sense that it is the best arrangement for begetting children and protecting them while they are dependent. It is a cultural group because it brings into intimate association persons of different age and sex who renew and reshape the folkways of the society into which they are born. The household serves as a "cultural workshop" for the transmission of old traditions and for the creation of new social values.”
“There's always the syndrome of the parent-child relationship: when someone has known you since you were very young, it doesn't matter how much more independent, how much older or more mature you get - there is still that element, the dynamic of the relationship that is very hard to successfully transform, and that has nothing to do with the music-making, in the end.”

Source : Interview with Elijah Ho, www.thecounterpoints.com. January 29, 2014.
“Rich people do not back away from problems, do not avoid problems, and do not complain about problems. Rich people are financial warriors.”

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