"Symmetry may have its appeal but it is inherently stale. Some kind of imbalance is behind every transformation."

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Source : Marcelo Gleiser (2010). “A Tear at the Edge of Creation: A Radical New Vision for Life in an Imperfect Universe”, p.14, Simon and Schuster

Marcelo Gleiser

#May Quotes #Imbalance Quotes #Transformation Quotes

“We have two useless gods who never leave our island, but like to dwell in it constantly, Poverty and Helplessness.”
“A person remains immature, whatever his age, as long as he thinks of himself as an exception to the human race.”
“To touch and feel each thing in the world, to know it by sight and by name, and then to know it with your eyes closed so that when something is gone, it can be recognized by the shape of its absence. So that you can continue to possess the lost, because absence is the only constant thing. Because you can get free of everything except the space where things have been.”
“I would have government defend the life and property of all citizens equally; protect all willing exchange; suppress and penalize all fraud, all misrepresentation, all violence, all predatory practices; invoke a common justice under law; and keep the records incidental to these functions. Even this is a bigger assignment than governments, generally, have proven capable of. Let governments do these things and do them well. Leave all else to men in free and creative effort.”
“I believe that my theory is correct; for whatever be the question upon which I am arguing, whether it be religious, philosophical, political, or economical; whether it affects well-being, morality, equality, right, justice, progress, responsibility, property, labor, exchange, capital, wages, taxes, population, credit, or Government; at whatever point of the scientific horizon I start from, I invariably come to the same thingâ€”the solution of the social problem is in liberty.”
“I attempted to see famines as broad "economic" problems (concentrating on how people can buy food, or otherwise get entitled to it), rather than in terms of the grossly undifferentiated picture of aggregate food supply for the economy as a whole.”
“Some of the greatest social reformers of our time were wealthy.”
“Oh to have you with me, to have you here, not to be alone, but to be with you, my beauty, you of all souls! You.”

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