114 quotes found
“Barriers to accumulation are perpetually dissolving and re-forming around the issue of so-called natural scarcities and on occasion, as Marx might put it, these barriers can be transformed into abs...”
“We can't, it seems, live without [capitalism] even as we complain about it.”
“Fly free, my daughter. Be what I could never be and leave the cage forever.”
“As I have aged, Ive been lucky never to reach old. Old is always at least five or ten years beyond my current calendar stage.”
“Fierce, and what capitalists sometimes call 'ruinous' competition tends, therefore, to produce leap-frogging innovations that more often that not lead capitalists to fetishise technological and org...”
“My name Quan. Quan Nguyen. This Kim-Ly, wife. We next door. Do nails. We with Mr. Blaylock. He fight, we fight. We come here from Viet Nam. This good country, but sometimes, good people in good cou...”
“Biology, list history, is not built with 'if's.”
“This may seem labouring the obvious, but in Japan one meets intelligent people who claim that logic is something invented in the West to allow Westerners to win discussions. Indeed, the belief is w...”
“Aodhan glanced over,the faint smile on his face deeply welcome after two painful centuries when Illium hadn't been able to reach his friend, no matter how hard he tried. Aodhan's psychic scars migh...”
“Now, its time for me to lock up and go. Listen to me. Lock up an empty building thats gonna be torn down. Makes no sense. Like an old man tellin a lie to his son from his death bed. Whats the point...”
“The bridge between the electron and the other elementary particles is provided by the fine structure constant. ... An expanded form of the constant leads to equations that define the transformation...”
“Officially it was almost spring but someone had forgotten to pass the news on to winter.”
“Do what you know needs to be done.”
“I wonder how long it takes for these people we elect to forget who they work for?”
“What kind of country has this become? Decent people cant do anything without being watched.”
“The paradox of quantum physics in the 21st Century, awakens us to the realisation that "nothing matters" in and of itself. That nothing can be stated with certainty; but everything is just a mathem...”
“Don't let the Sun go down on you today. Be the light instead, that shines forth and touches everyone's shadow, awakening them to that light.”
“The world bein’ so small ain’t always a good thing for those of us who ain’t searchin’ for new and different stuff.”
“One of the worst things I’ve learned about getting older is that there seems to be more change that you don’t like than there was when you were younger and you can’t do nothin’ about it.”
“Does the plain, simple beauty of life get buried under society’s so-called required daily activities or is that just true of me? No, I know I’m not alone in that feeling. We all get caught up in th...”
