“The "control mechanism" view of culture begins with the assumption that human thought is basically both social and public — that its natural habitat is the house yard, the market place, and the town square.”
Source: The Interpretation of Cultures (1973), p. 45
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Source: The Theory of Gambling and Statistical Logic (Revised Edition) 1977, Chapter Nine, Weighted Statistical Logic And Statistical Games, p. 299

“Ah me, why did they build my house by the road to the market town?”
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Kéramos http://www.worldwideschool.org/library/books/lit/poetry/TheCompletePoeticalWorksofHenryWadsworthLongfellow/chap22.html, line 66; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 187.

“A basic contradiction between socialism and the market economy does not exist.”
As quoted in Daily report: People's Republic of China, Editions 240-249 (1993), p. 30
Interview, Time, 4 November 1985.
Variant: There are no fundamental contradictions between a socialist system and a market economy.