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Old 03-08-2011, 11:38 AM   #1354
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.....Wherever there is great property there is great inequality. For one very rich man there must be at least five hundred poor, and the affluence of the few supposes the indigence of the many.
..........— Adam Smith (1723 - 1790), Scottish economist. The Wealth of Nations (1776), Vol. II Book V, Chapter I, Part II, V.145.
This reminded me of Baudrillard and Foucault (for some reason ) but as I was browsing through them I came across this quote (totally unrelated, of course):

Quote:
If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form of break up and infidelity.

-- Jean Baudrillard
(I think it's from Seduction)
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