"'Capitalism' is a dirty word for many intellectuals, but there are a number of studies showing that open economies and free trade are negatively correlated with genocide and war."

-- Steven Pinker

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“Beauty spins and the mind moves. To catch beauty would be to understand how that impertinent stability in vertigo is possible. But no, delight need not reach so far. To be running breathlessly, but not yet arrived, is itself delightful, a suspended moment of living hope.”
“The East is a montage. It is old and it is young, very green in summer, very white in winter, gregarious, withdrawn and at once both sophisticated and provincial.”
“Nor love they least Who strike with right good will To vanquish ill And fight God's battle upward from the beast.”

Source : Richard Hovey (1908). “Along the Trail”
“If I could climax as many times as a Derek Dingle routine I would be a happy man!”
“When a government becomes powerful it is destructive, extravagant and violent; it is an usurer which takes bread from innocent mouths and deprives honorable men of their substance, for votes with which to perpetuate itself.”
“To have a museum like the Museum of Modern Art in New York is to have power. I don't have any interest in being the director of an institution that has power.”

Source : Source: www.raintaxi.com
“I think that I recall the nostalgic '50s: the start of early television and rock-and-roll, and I think everything seemed to get very generic. Not much has changed.”
“The Chanel woman is slender, sophisticated and chic.”

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