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"If you put a ten dollar bill under the rug instead of spending it, that is capital formation. It represents ten dollars' worth of something that might have been immediately consumed, but wasn't."
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"The picture is all he feels about it, all he thinks worth preserving of it, all he invests it with. If all the qualities which a painter took from the model for his picture were really taken, no person could be painted twice."
"The rupee becomes cheap [of less value] and is that why man becomes expensive [valuable] and when the rupee becomes expensive, man becomes cheap. At present, man has become cheap; he will become expensive again."
"A diamond will never tell you how valuable it is; if you don't already know, you are not worthy of it."
"An ugly jar full of water is worth more than an empty beautiful one in the desert."
"Don't some people say, 'You did not value me'? What value did you have at all? Go ask the ocean, 'what is my worth?' You will be swept away with one wave. The owner of many waves has swept away many a people like you! Worth is in those people who have no attachment-abhorrence."
"Diamonds are proof that the most valuable things are sometimes formed in the dark."
"If roses were not special weeds would not envy them."
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"Lenin, the greatest theorist of them all, did not know what he was going to do after he had got the power."
"The spectacle of a great, solvent government paying a fictitious price for gold it did not want and did not need and doing it on purpose to debase the value of its own paper currency was one to astonish the world."
"Loyalty of the law-making power to the executive power was one of the dangers the political fathers foretold."
"There was endless controversy as to whether the acts of the New Deal did actually move recovery or retard it, and nothing final could ever come of that bitter debate because it is forever impossible to prove what might have happened in place of what did."
"The New Deal's enmity for that system of free and competitive private enterprise which we call capitalism was fundamental."
"It is the function of the President, representing the executive principle, to execute the laws."
"Formerly government was the responsibility of people; now people were the responsibility of government."
"This is the problem for which revolutionary theory has yet to find the right solution, if there is one. The difficulty is that the economic interests of the two classes are antagonistic."
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