"I am suggesting that there is, and always has been, a rather high correlation between ethnicity and occupation/economic role throughout the various time-space zones of historical capitalism."

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Source : Thomas Brackett Reed, Mrs. Susan Prentice Merrill Reed (1911). “Orations and addresses”

Immanuel Wallerstein

#Space Quotes #Ethnicity Quotes #Historical Quotes

“There's a literal track: who says what to whom, what are people wearing, etcetera. And there's the abstract track: what ideas are suggested by the literal. And the real movie takes place in the relationship between the literal and the abstract.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“People have their complexities. They have their heroic moments and their villainous moments, too.”

Source : "Ryan Reynolds Interview - ADVENTURELAND". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. April 3, 2009.
“A human body is associated with six stages of transformation, birth, growth, change, evolution, death and destruction.”
“Only if enough ordinary Americans speak up and demand better from both their employers and their government is the system going to get fixed. But first of all, we have to understand how serious the problem is.”

Source : Source: www.washingtonpost.com
“If the Barbarians are destroyed, who will we then be able to blame for the bad things?”
“We have our own system, ... and journalists in our system are not put in prison for embarrassing the government by revealing things the government might not wish to have revealed. The important thing is that our system, under which journalists can write without fear or favor, should continue.”
“The life of the law has not been logic; it has been experience.”

Source : The Common Law Lecture 1 (1881).
“We only think when we are confronted with problems.”

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