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"In fact I am quite snappy and irritable, and I don't know if I'd like to make myself worse in that respect."
"Whoever wishes to keep a secret must hide the fact that he possesses one."
"Almost any biographer, if he respects facts, can give us much more than another fact to add to our collection. He can give us the creative fact; the fertile fact; the fact that suggests and engenders."
"The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd."
"Theory helps us to bear our ignorance of facts."
"What keeps us from abandoning ourselves entirely to one vice, often, is the fact that we have several."
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"The argument that the two parties should represent opposed ideals and policies, one, perhaps, of the Right and the other of the Left, is a foolish idea acceptable only to doctrinaire and academic thinkers."
"On this basis, which was originally financial and goes back to George Peabody, there grew up in the twentieth century a power structure between London and New York which penetrated deeply into university life, the press, and the practice of foreign policy."
"This persistence as private firms continued because it ensured the maximum of anonymity and secrecy to persons of tremendous public power who dreaded public knowledge of their activities as an evil almost as great as inflation."
"The traditional Christian attitude toward human personality was that human nature was essentially good and that it was formed and modified by social pressures and training."
"Thus, the use of fiat money is more justifiable in financing a depression than in financing a war."
"When the business interests... pushed through the first installment of civil service reform in 1883, they expected that they would be able to control both political parties equally."
"To this day the Arab influence is evident in southern Italy, northern Africa and, above all, in Spain."
"Hitler's economic revolution in Germany had reduced financial considerations to a point where they played no role in economic or political decisions."
"By the winter of 1945-1946, the Russian peoples were being warned of the dangers from the West."
"The history of the last century shows, as we shall see later, that the advice given to governments by bankers, like the advice they gave to industrialists, was consistently good for bankers, but was often disastrous for governments, businessmen, and the people generally."
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