“Well, it has been a long time since manna last fallen from from heaven. We cannot live alone; we rely on others to produce the stuff of our material and intellectual life, and we have to organize society so that its members will cooperate toward the common good.”

—  Ivar Ekeland

Source: The Best of All Possible Worlds (2006), Chapter 9, The Common Good, p. 167.

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