"But would the young do any better under the same circumstances? Will they do any better when their turns come? The answer is that youth would not and cannot, given the financial and economic framework within which the elders are operating. While the moral convictions of individuals are important in the long run, it is institutions that determine the immediate course of events - particularly the institutions of finance."

Source : Louis O. Kelso, Patricia Hetter Kelso (1967). “Two-factor Theory: the Economics of Reality; how to Turn Eighty Million Workers Into Capitalists on Borrowed Money, and Other Proposals”, New York : Vintage Books

Louis O. Kelso

#Running Quotes #Long Quotes #Important Quotes

“I spent three of the best years of my life in 10th grade.”
“My drug of choice is historical research.”
“I believe that even an airport can be an inspiring place for an artist. A Nobel Prize laureate once said something along the lines of, "The more one travels, the more intelligent one becomes," however, I think that you can still travel a lot and remain sheltered.”

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“The cost of college should never discourage anyone from going after a valuable degree.”
“We represent in ourselves organized terror - this must be said very clearly.”
“The modern superstition is that we're free of superstition.”

Source : Graham Joyce (2012). “Some Kind of Fairy Tale: A Novel”, p.164, Anchor
“I'm living under water. Everything seems slow and far away. I know there's a world up there, a sunlit quick world where time runs like dry sand through an hourglass, but down here, where I am, air and sound and time and feeling are thick and dense.”

Source : Audrey Niffenegger (2013). “The Time Traveler’s Wife”, p.270, Zola Books
“Writers turn dreams into print.”

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