"As mass production has to be accompanied by mass consumption, mass consumption, in turn, implies a distribution of wealth ... to provide men with buying power. ... Instead of achieving that kind of distribution, a giant suction pump had by 1929-30 drawn into a few hands an increasing portion of currently produced wealth. ... The other fellows could stay in the game only by borrowing. When their credit ran out, the game stopped."

-- Marriner Stoddard Eccles

#Men Quotes #Hands Quotes #Games Quotes

“We have to learn to make our own way through a complex world without the benefit of an accepted trustworthy route map.”

Source : Guy Claxton (2001). “Wise Up”, p.254, A&C Black
“Morality binds people into groups. It gives us tribalism, it gives us genocide, war, and politics. But it also gives us heroism, altruism, and sainthood.”
“I was very tiny...I spent most of my time stuffed into lockers. Thank god for cell phones, or I'd still be there.”
“Living in Cambridge, with nature and everything, it's so clean.”
“The more I see of what you call civilization, the more highly I think of what you call savagery!”
“When artists and philosophers talk only amongst themselves, they ignore the potential of popular culture to become a variety of dialogues with and between everyday people. Its discourse may be productive of desire and pleasure, but popular culture is also a language in which people discuss politics, religion, ethics, and action.”

Source : Brenda Laurel (2001). “Utopian Entrepreneur”, p.11, MIT Press
“It's a different way of looking at the world. Your life isn't about rights. It's about responsibilities."--Mr Bill Berkowitz”
“It's the centrality of the Word and not the person who preaches it that's important.”

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