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The blessing that the market does not ask about birth is paid for in the exchange society by the fact that the possibilities conferred by birth are molded to fit the production of goods that can be bought on the market.
theodor adorno— E. Jephcott, trans., p. 9
Human social institutions can effect the course of human evolution. Just as climate, food supply, predators, and other natural forces of selection have molded our nature, so too can our culture.
peter singer— Chapter 6, A New Understanding Of Ethics, p. 172
Science discovers, genius invents, industry applies, and man adapts himself to, or is molded by, new things
— Slogan of Chicago World's Fair "A Century of Progress" of 1933.
Skirting the rocks at the forest edge With a running flame from ledge to ledge, Or swaying deeper in shadowy glooms, A smoldering fire in her dusky blooms; Bronzed and molded by wind and sun, Maddening, gladdening every one With a gypsy beauty full and fine, A health to the crimson columbine!
— Columbine; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 124.
The blessing that the market does not ask about birth is paid for in the exchange society by the fact that the possibilities conferred by birth are molded to fit the production of goods that can be bought on the market.
— E. Jephcott, trans., p. 9 (Sourced)
You think darkness is your ally. You've merely adapted the dark. I was born in it, molded by it. I didn't see the light until I was a man and by then it was only blinding.
Bane— The Dark Knight Rises, Tom Hardy
An aphorism, honestly stamped and molded, has not yet been “deciphered” once we have read it over; rather, its exegesis for which an art of exegesis is needed has only just begun.
— Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900), German philosopher. On the Genealogy of Morals, 'Preface', Section 8 (1887)
Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered; it is something molded.
antoine de saint exupéry— Antoine de Saint-Exupery (2012) Airman's Odyssey. p. 28
