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"There's just as much money to be made in the wreck of a civilization as in the upbuilding of one."
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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."
"The three wealthiest people in the world own more than the GDP of forty-eight countries!"
"If wealth is a magnet, poverty is a kind of repellent."
"Greed applied is prosperity realized."
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"I want peace. I want to see if somewhere there isn't something left in life of charm and grace."
"Until you have lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was or what freedom really is."
"I was right when I said I'd never look back. It hurts too much, it drags at your heart till you can't ever do anything else except look back."
"Vanity was stronger than love at sixteen and there was no room in her hot heart now for anything but hate."
"Do I understand, sir, that you mean the Cause for which our heroes have died is not sacred?'If you were run over by a railroad train your death wouldn't sanctify the railroad company, would it?' asked Rhett and his voice sounded as if he were humbly seeking information."
"But how nice it would be to know that some good Yankee woman - And there must be SOME good Yankee women. I don't care what people say, they can't all be bad! How nice it would be to know that they pulled weeds off our men's graves and brought flowers to them, even if they were enemies. If Charlie were dead in the North it would comfort me to know that someone - And I don't care what you ladies think of me, her voice broke again, 'I will withdraw from both clubs and I'll - I'll pull up every weed off every Yankee's grave I can find and I'll plant flowers, too - and - I just dare anyone to stop me!"
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