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"He reproduced himself with so much humble objectivity, with the unquestioning, matter of fact interest of a dog who sees himself in a mirror and thinks: there's another dog."

"Our esteem for facts has not neutralized in us all religiousness. It is itself almost religious. Our scientific temper is devout."

"General principles... are to the facts as the root and sap of a tree are to its leaves."

"Once the object has been constructed, I have a tendency to discover in it, transformed and displaced, images, impressions, facts which have deeply moved me."

"The fact is, the media never gets off the interstate unless there's a major explosion."
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"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."


"Hitler's economic revolution in Germany had reduced financial considerations to a point where they played no role in economic or political decisions."


"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."


"Thus, the use of fiat money is more justifiable in financing a depression than in financing a war."


"It is this power structure which the Radical Right in the United States has been attacking for years in the belief that they are attacking the Communists."


"Once again the mastermind was Lionel Curtis, and the earlier Round Table Groups and Institutes of International Affairs were used as nuclei for the new network."


"Instead, there were a variety of controls of which some could be influenced by bankers, some could be influenced by the government, and some could hardly be influenced by either."


"In addition to their power over government based on government financing and personal influence, bankers could steer governments in ways they wished them to go by other pressures."


"The failure of Christianity in the areas west from Sicily was even greater, and was increased by the spread of Arab outlooks and influence to that area, and especially to Spain."
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