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“If you think of a work of fiction as a kind of scale model of the world, then the positive valences - where things turn out better than you thought they would - ought to be in there somewhere, too.”

Ifs Thinking World Kind Turns Fiction Ought Models Scales Better Than You

Author:George Saunders

“The free enterprise concept inherent in the economic model of capitalism should mean common people, or lower and middle class wage-earners, have greater potential to rise up and gain financial independence. In reality, however, free enterprise all too often leads to an almost total lack of government regulation that in turn allows the global elite to run amuck in Gordon Gecko-style financial coups.”

“Once you turn pro and you're making the big money and kids are buying your sneakers and your skates and your gloves and so on, you are a member of that role model club.”

Bigs Kids Turns Roles Members Models Clubs Buying Role Models Gloves Skates Sneakers

Author:Bobby Orr

“I was growing up with a single mom who'd be at work when I came home from school. So I'd just turn on the TV. I grew up watching old Clint Eastwood westerns. I adopted him as one of my male role models.”

Home School Turns Roles Growing Up Growing Tvs Grew Mom Grew Up Models Males Role Models Adopted Turn-on Single Mom Male Role Models

Author:Bailey Chase

“Every time I await a model, even when I am most pressed to time, I am overjoyed when the time comes and I tremble when I hear the key turn in the door.”

Turns Doors Keys Models Overjoyed

Author:Eugene Delacroix

“There are some women that don't do it for some men. That's why they turn out so many models.”

Men Turns Women Models

Book:Rabbit is Rich

Source: Rabbit is Rich

“The most effective young Facebook users, however -- the ones who will probably be winners if Facebook turns out to be a model of the future they will inhabit as adults -- are the ones who create successful online fictions about themselves.”

Ifs Young Turns Fiction Successful Models Adults Winner Online Users

Book:You Are Not A Gadget: A Manifesto

Source: You Are Not A Gadget: A Manifesto

“Pragmatism , in trying to turn experimental physics into a prototype of all science and to model all spheres of intellectual life after the techniques of the laboratory, is the counterpart of modern industrialism, for which the factory is the prototype of human existence, and which models all branches of culture after production on the conveyor belt.”

Source: EPZ Eclipse of Reason

“I was already writing about the idea of a 'multiverse' in the 1970s, though I might have called it the 'pluriverse.' How was I to know it would turn out to be the standard model? Actually, I consider myself an enlightenment fossil.”

Knows Writing Ideas Might Turns Models Standards Enlightenment Fossils Multiverse

Author:Charles Jencks