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"CAPITALISM: If everything worked without need of repair, upgrade or replacement, then peaceful minds and prosperity would prevail among the masses rather than just the few who control markets."

"Money is representative, and follows the nature and fortunes of the owner...The farmer is covetous of his dollar, and with reason. It is no waif to him. He knows how many strokes of labor it represents. His bones ache with the days' work that earned it. He knows how much land it represents - how much rain, frost and sunshine. He knows that, in the dollar, he gives you so much discretion and patience, so much hoeing and threshing. Try to lift his dollar; you must lift all that weight. In the city, where money follows the skit of a pen or a lucky rise in exchange, it comes to be looked on as light."

"You know if the U.S. Government wanted to boost the economy there's a simple solution make Black Friday the refund date for your state and federal taxes."

"Development of states, urbanization, mechanization and industrialisation have all brought phenomenal strides to growth and prosperity of economies and their populace. They have also brought with them the insatiable need for energy resources with the related offspring of instability, conflict, war and corruption."

"Somebody will beat both [contents and price] sooner or later because that is good old Free Enterprise, where the consumer benefits from battles between jolly green giants."

"You cannot bring about prosperity without discouraging thrift."

"The Roaring Twenties were the period of that Great American Prosperity which was built on shaky foundations."

"So far, therefore, as the science of exchange relates to the advantage of one of the exchanging persons only, it is founded on the ignorance or incapacity of the opposite person. . . . It is therefore a science founded on nescience. . . . This science, alone of sciences, must, by all available means, promulgate and prolong its opposite nescience. . . . It is therefore peculiarly and alone science of darkness."

"The corporate killer downsizing is directly responsive to what the mutual funds have wanted."
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"Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build bridges even when there are no rivers."

"Support by United States rulers is rather in the nature of the support that the rope gives to a hanged man."

"When you are skinning your customers, you should leave some skin on to heal, so that you can skin them again."

"The purpose of the United Nations should be to protect the essential sovereignty of nations, large and small."

"If you live among dogs, keep a stick. After all, this is what a hound has teeth for-to bite when he feels like it!"
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