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"Which prophets are most profitable? --
Or... Does religion have anything to do with economic prosperity?" — Sep 20, 2014 11:31AM
"Which prophets are most profitable? --
Or... Does religion have anything to do with economic prosperity?" — Sep 20, 2014 11:31AM
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"PROFESSOR NOOZONE: 'Look true, them may come in many types!
Some may be like supersocialist hive-dwellers, or solipsistic self-worshipping Ayndroids, or shi-shi foo-foo babylon-capitalists, or mistik-obeah wizards... or even hyper-elightened rastabeings, living inna smoke ring of sacred, loving yum-aromas, Diversity is grand, an' who tell dere isms an' skisms?'" — Oct 24, 2015 08:00PM
"PROFESSOR NOOZONE: 'Look true, them may come in many types!
Some may be like supersocialist hive-dwellers, or solipsistic self-worshipping Ayndroids, or shi-shi foo-foo babylon-capitalists, or mistik-obeah wizards... or even hyper-elightened rastabeings, living inna smoke ring of sacred, loving yum-aromas, Diversity is grand, an' who tell dere isms an' skisms?'" — Oct 24, 2015 08:00PM
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"...An inherently flawed system?
"In his influential 2013 book, 'Capital In the 21st Century,' French economist Thomas Piketty argues that the return to capital is greater than the growth rate of the overall economy — and that wealth grows faster than income as a result.
This means that increasing inequality is the *inevitable* consequence of capitalism's historical evolution."" — Nov 17, 2015 09:56AM
"...An inherently flawed system?
"In his influential 2013 book, 'Capital In the 21st Century,' French economist Thomas Piketty argues that the return to capital is greater than the growth rate of the overall economy — and that wealth grows faster than income as a result.
This means that increasing inequality is the *inevitable* consequence of capitalism's historical evolution."" — Nov 17, 2015 09:56AM
“Consider all the inanimate matter in the universe, all the dumb atoms, all the mindless molecules, all the oblivious dust grains and pebbles and rocks and iceballs and worlds and stars, all the unthinking galaxies and superclusters, wheeling through the oblivious time-haunted megaparsecs of the cosmic supervoid.
In all that immensity, she had somehow contrived to BE a human being, a microscopically tiny, cosmically insignificant bundle of information-processing systems, wired to a mind more structurally complex than the Milky Way itself, maybe even more complex than the rest of the *whole damned universe*!”
― Blue Remembered Earth
In all that immensity, she had somehow contrived to BE a human being, a microscopically tiny, cosmically insignificant bundle of information-processing systems, wired to a mind more structurally complex than the Milky Way itself, maybe even more complex than the rest of the *whole damned universe*!”
― Blue Remembered Earth
“Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.”
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“The purpose of studying economics is not to acquire a set of ready-made answers to economic questions, but to learn how to avoid being deceived by economists.”
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“The best teacher is not the one who knows most but the one who is most capable of reducing knowledge to that simple compound of the obvious and wonderful.”
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“I've seen marvelous things, Sunday. I've looked back from the edge of the system and seen this planet, this Earth, reduced to a tiny dot of pale blue. I know what that feels like. To think that dot is where we came from, where we evolved out of the chaos and the dirt. And I know what it feels like to imagine going further. To hold that incredible, dangerous thought in my mind, if only for an instant. To think: what if I don't go home? What if I just keep traveling? Watching that pale-blue dot fall ever further away, until the darkness swallowed it and there was no turning back. Until Earth was just a blue memory.”
― Blue Remembered Earth
― Blue Remembered Earth
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