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"I saw the poverty, I say the prosperity. Both have fundamental problems."
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"If wealth is a magnet, poverty is a kind of repellent."

"Some regard private enterprise as if it were a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look upon it as a cow that they can milk. Only a handful see it for what it really is--the strong horse that pulls the whole cart."

"Greed applied is prosperity realized."

"Free markets and capitalism are predicated upon the definition of greed as altruistic in economics."

"We all know how 'modern democracies take loaves from the wealthy.' It's the slipups in the 'pass them out to the poor' department that inspire a study of Economics."

"The free market has never worked in agriculture and it never will. The economics of a family farm are very different from a firm's... the demand for food isn't elastic, people don't eat more just because food is cheap. Even if I go out of business this land will keep producing corn."

"The whole industry is so screwed up by economics. It's disgusting to me."

"Akin to the idea that time is money is the concept, less spoken but as commonly assumed, that we may be adequately represented by money. The giving of money has thus become our characteristic virtue. But to give is not to do. The money is given in lieu of action, thought, care, time."

"Centrally planned economies are upended by out of control population. Their escape valve is eugenics."

"The probable accumulation of the surpluses of revenue beyond what can be applied to the payment of the public debt... merits the consideration of Congress. Shall it lie unproductive in the public vaults?...Or shall it rather be appropriated to the improvements of roads, canals, rivers, education, and other great foundations of prosperity and union."
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"The condition you're in at this moment is the product of your previous thoughts, to change your condition, change your thoughts."
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"The real tragedy of life is not the fear of darkness, but it is to conform and follow the darkness in spite of fear."
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