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"The three wealthiest people in the world own more than the GDP of forty-eight countries!"
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"If the State uses this power systematically in order to force the community to accept a particular sort of money whose employment it desires for reasons of monetary policy, then it is actually carrying through a measure of monetary policy. The States which completed the transition to a gold standard a generation ago, did so from motives of monetary policy. They gave up the silver standard or the credit-money standard because they recognized that the behaviour of the value of silver or of credit money was unsuited to the economic policy they were following."
"We can't get to the $4 trillion in savings that we need by just cutting the 12 percent of the budget that pays for things like medical research and education funding and food inspectors and the weather service. And we can't just do it by making seniors pay more for Medicare."
"Capitalism has a way of letting people view the world through rose-coloured glasses."
"Free markets and capitalism are predicated upon the definition of greed as altruistic in 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."
"If you have 50 different plug types, appliances wouldn't be available and would be very expensive. But once an electric outlet becomes standardized, many companies can design appliances, and competition ensues, creating variety and better prices for consumers."
"If wealth is a magnet, poverty is a kind of repellent."
"Greed applied is prosperity realized."
"Centrally planned economies are upended by out of control population. Their escape valve is eugenics."
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"I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it."
"People tend to think that life really does progress for everyone eventually, that people progress, but actually only some people progress. The rest of the people don't."
"In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they're still beautiful."
"How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names."
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