Quote by Noam Chomsky
Unlimited economic growth has the marvelous quality of stilling di

Unlimited economic growth has the marvelous quality of stilling discontent while maintaining privilege, a fact that has not gone unnoticed among liberal economists. – Noam Chomsky

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In the literal sense, there has been no relevant evolution since the trek from Africa. But there has been substantial progress towards higher standards of rights, justice and freedom – along with all too many illustrations of how remote is the goal of a decent society. – Noam Chomsky

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Freedom
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I remember at the age of five travelling on a trolley car with my mother past a group of women on a picket line at a textile plant, seeing them being viciously beaten by security people. So that kind of thing stayed with me. – Noam Chomsky

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Age
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Real popular culture is folk art – coalminers songs and so forth. – Noam Chomsky

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Art
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Growth
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Some people are molded by their admirations, others by their hostilities. – Elizabeth Bowen

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Growth

Climb mountains to see lowlands. – Chinese Proverb

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Growth

We find comfort among those who agree with us-growth among those who dont. – Frank A. Clark

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Growth

In the end, it is the person you become, not the things you have achieved, that is the most important. – Les Brown

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Growth

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Art is moral passion married to entertainment. Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television. – Rita Mae Brown

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Television

Technology has a great advantage in that we are capable of creating dinosaurs and show them on the screen even though they are extinct 65 million years. All of a sudden, we have a fantastic tool that is as good as dreams are. – Werner Herzog

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Dreams

An ingenuous mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof. – Walter Savage Landor

Category:
Worth

Poor David Hume is dying fast, but with more real cheerfulness and good humor and with more real resignation to the necessary course of things, than any whining Christian ever dyed with pretended resignation to the will of God. – Adam Smith

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Humor