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2008 November 12
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"We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it." |
"Free lunch strategies have a habit of self-destructing. The Swiss economist Eugene Boehler had the context of such false and unsustainable images in mind when he noted that the 'modern economy is as much a dream factory as Hollywood.' It is based only a small part on real needs, and for the greatest part on fantasy and myth, he claimed. The stock exchange, far from ruling economic life, is at the mercy of tides of collective make-believe. Depressions come about when there is a loss of economic myth - (Eugene Boehler 'Der Mythus in der Wirtschaft,' Industrielle Organization, XXXI, 1962.)" |
"Christmas is a time when kids tell Santa what they want and adults pay for it. Deficits are when adults tell the government what they want and their kids pay for it." |
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2008 November 11
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"Military glory -- the attractive rainbow
that rises in showers of blood." |
"The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending
spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. Instead
of diminishing evil, it multiplies it... Through violence you
may murder the hater, but you do not murder hate. In fact,
violence merely increases hate.... Returning violence for
violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a
night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out hate;
only love can do that." |
"We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom." |
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2008 November 10
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"When a government takes over a people’s economic life it becomes
absolute, and when it has become absolute it destroys the arts,
the minds, the liberties and the meaning of the people it governs." |
"A depression is a large-scale decline in production and trade... there is nothing in the nature of a free-market economy to cause such an event." |
"I hate this 'crime doesn't pay' stuff. Crime in the U.S. is perhaps one of the biggest businesses in the world today." |
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