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"There is no word more generally misinterpreted than the word egoism, in its modern sense."
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"I who am blind can give one hint to those who see: Use your eyes as if tomorrow you would be stricken blind. And the same method can be applied to the other senses. Hear the music of voices, the song of a bird, the mighty strains of an orchestra, as if you would be stricken deaf tomorrow. Touch each object as if tomorrow your tactile sense would fail. Smell the perfume of flowers, taste with relish each morsel, as if tomorrow you could never smell and taste again. make the most of every sense; glory in the beauty which the world in all the facets of pleasure reveals to you through the several means of contact which Nature provides. But of all the senses, I am sure that sight is the most delightful."
"It makes no sense to talk of the social obligations of the corporation without reference to its economic obligations. The two are intertwined."
"One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of fellowship with other human beings as we take our place among them."
"All things make sense; you just have to fathom how they make sense."
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"In this way, the charge that the bank makes for the use of its notes - the interest - is a continual and universal tax upon all the members of the community."
"Capital, however capital may be defined, would practically cease to exist as an income producing fund, for the simple reason that if money, wherewith to buy capital, could be obtained for one-half of one per cent, capital itself could command no higher price."
"In brief, egoism in its modern interpretation, is the antithesis, not of altruism, but of idealism."
"But the egoist has no ideals, for the knowledge that his ideals are only his ideals, frees him from their domination. He acts for his own interest, not for the interest of ideals."
"It was the king's army, the king's people, the king's taxes; and he who questioned the propriety of the royal prerogative of taking from his people without return or accounting, was reckoned, and felt himself to be, a criminal, guilty of the highest crime of disloyalty."
"At present, financial crises occur, chiefly because the paper currency is redeemable in gold only."
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