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Thomas Piketty

"What was the good of industrial development, what was the good of all the technological innovations, toil, and population movements if, after half a century of industrial growth, the condition of the masses was still just as miserable as before, and all lawmakers could do was prohibit factory labor by children under the age of eight?"

Source : Thomas Piketty (2014). “Capital in the Twenty-First Century”, p.8, Harvard University Press

Thomas Piketty

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“Do you think I got stung because I have honey in my coffee every day?”
“After you've done it for so many years, you have to find a new direction. You have to find something in your soul that's going to push you towards - to find your inspiration.”
“When you have wisdom that another person knows that he needs, you give it freely. But when the other person doesn't yet know that he needs your wisdom you keep it to yourself. Food only looks good to a hungry man.”
“We publish only to satisfy out craving for fame; there's no other motive except the even baser one of making money....”
“[Stephanie] 'You see, Mrs. Mayer was going on about George's lodge, and how he wanted to be buried with his ring, and so Grandma had to check the ring out, and in the process broke off one of George's fingers. Turns out the finger was wax. Somehow Kenny got into the mortuary this morning, left Spiro a note, and chopped off George's finger. And then while I was at the mall tonight with Mary Lou, Kenny threatened me in the shoe department. That must have been when he put the finger in my pocket.' [Morelli] 'Have you been drinking?”
“I never ever approached a dealer. I have always been approached by dealers or curators or whatever.”
“I'm not focused on the gay and lesbian movement.”
“The drug ketamine, used as a 'dissociative' anesthetic, can produce subjective reports of conscious awareness outside the body, as can various other psychoactive drugs.”

Source : "Can Science Explain the Soul?" by Stuart Hameroff, Deepak Chopra, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 9, 2010.

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