"For in the theoretical field bourgeois economics no longer engages in blithe and joyous fights."

-- Rudolf Hilferding

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“Among living artists, George Condo may be the most embraced by the powers that be.”
“Mengistu seemed to symbolize the revolution. He was the baria, the slave who overthrew the master, the member of the conquered tribe who got even with the conquerors, the poorly educated son of a servant who rose against the intellectual elite.”

Source : "Ethiopia: Empire in Revolution". Book by David Ottaway and ‎Marina Ottaway, 1978.
“I don't believe in premarital sex. It enabled me to date three or four women at the same time, because as long as I wasn't having sex with them, I could always just walk away.”
“You're basing your laws and your whole outlook on natural life on mythology. It won't work. That's why you have all these problems in the world. Name them: India, Pakistan, Ireland. Name them-all these problems. They're all religious problems.”

Source : "Years of Minutes" by Andy Rooney, (p. 339), 2004.
“You know what I find most shocking about the Vel'd'Hiv?" Guillaume said. "Its code name." I knew the answer to that, thanks to my extensive reading. Operation Spring Breeze, " I murmured.”

Source : Tatiana de Rosnay (2007). “Sarah's Key”, p.49, Macmillan
“The way in which the photograph records experience is also different from the way of language. Language makes sense only when it is presented as a sequence of propositions. Meaning is distorted when a word or sentence is, as we say, taken out of context; when a reader or listener is deprived of what was said before, and after. But there is no such thing as a photograph taken out of context, for a photograph does not require one. In fact, the point of photography is to isolate images from context, so as to make them visible in a different way.”
“Saying someone is ugly doesn't make you any prettier.”
“What's the point of being a grown-up if you can't indulge the kid inside you every now and then?”

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