"Capitalism arose and took off its pajamas. Another day, another dollar. Each man is valued at what he will bring in the marketplace. Meaning has been drained from work and assigned instead to remuneration."

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Source : Donald Barthelme (1982). “Sixty stories”, Plume

Donald Barthelme

#Work Quotes #Men Quotes #Dollars Quotes

“Crime like virtue has its degrees; and timid innocence was never known to blossom suddenly into extreme license.”
“Before researchers become researches they should become philosophers.”
“I will have nothing to do with a bomb!”
“What is mine, even to my life, is hers I love; but the secret of my friend is not mine!”
“There is also something deeply lovely about uncertainty: the possibility of optimism.”

Source : "7 Truths Women Have To Learn The Hard Way" by Joan Wickersham, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 7, 2013.
“I don't have time to read nonfiction.”
“About 1.2% of the human genome is made up of genes, things that encode for proteins, the stuff that we consider us. There is about 8.3% that's a virus. In other words we're probably about seven times more virus than we are human genes, which is kind of a weird way to thinking about yourself.”

Source : Source: bigthink.com
“That was one of those moments where I felt so confident. I played three matches in the same day.”

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