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Le totalitarisme des marchés financiers ne me réjouit pas. ... Je ne sais pas si les marchés pensent juste mais je sais qu'on ne peut pas penser contre les marchés.
I don't enjoy the totalitarianism of markets. ... I don't know whether markets think properly, but I know that one cannot think against them.

Double-think, here we go.

Where is the Galileo that will dare not to respect the dogmas of this Church?

"It's the statue, man, The Statue."

by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Fri Feb 23rd, 2007 at 11:18:14 AM EST
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Sorry for the mistranslation, and thanks for correcting.

I'd say one of the things we must remember, as left wing people, is that (a part of) the elite doesn't believe its own bullshit, and we must convince people of that.

Un roi sans divertissement est un homme plein de misères

by linca (antonin POINT lucas AROBASE gmail.com) on Fri Feb 23rd, 2007 at 11:22:56 AM EST
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I find his expression fairly confused. He's a pundit who writes a bad book a year. He's a friend of Bernard-Henri Lévy.

But, yes, basically, he's saying: without me to tell you what to do, lightning will strike.

High priest takes big money to stave off disaster.

by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Fri Feb 23rd, 2007 at 11:26:50 AM EST
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It's not by chance I coined them the Congregation for the Propagation of the Economic Faith a.k.a. The Holy Economics Office

"Dieu se rit des hommes qui se plaignent des conséquences alors qu'ils en chérissent les causes" Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet
by Melanchthon on Fri Feb 23rd, 2007 at 05:40:53 PM EST
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