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1 " Why are some things easier to remember the more time has passed since they occurred? "
― Anna Funder , Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall
2 " History isn't all fact--it's just the story the victors tell to keep themselves in power. And it's been a slow revision. The more time passes, the easier it becomes to reinvent the past. "
― Heather Anastasiu , Glitch (Glitch, #1)
3 " The more " things" I have, the more time I spend thinking about them, moving them around, fixing them, looking for them, or upgrading them. "
4 " But the more time has been released from production, the more imperative it has become to absorb that time in consumption and consumerism, given that, as was earlier argued, capitalist 'economic rationality has no room for authentically free time which neither produces nor consumes commercial wealth'. The ever-present danger is that freely associating and self-creating individuals, liberated from the chores of production and blessed with a whole range of labour-saving and time-saving technologies to aid their consumption, might start to build an alternative non-capitalistic world. They might become inclined to reject the dominant capitalist economic rationality, for example, and start evading its overwhelming but often cruel rules of time discipline. To avoid such eventualities, capital must not only find ways to absorb more and more goods and services through realisation but also somehow occupy the free time that the new technologies release. "
― David Harvey , Seventeen Contradictions and the End of Capitalism
5 " The less food, the more time to talk, the more to talk about. "