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"The problem of how we finance the welfare state should not obscure a separate issue: if each person thinks he has an inalienable right to welfare, no matter what happens to the world, that's not equity, it's just creating a society where you can't ask anything of people."
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"The hardest thing to understand in the world is the income tax."
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"Asean is obviously a very important association for us. Over the past 30 years Asean has made great strides in regional cooperation covering a number of areas, although recently it has been under strain because of the financial crisis and other challenges."
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"He became convinced that ordinary commercial financing could be done for a service charge plus an insurance fee amounting to much less that the current rates of interest charged by banks, whose rates were based on supply and demand, treating money as a commodity rather than as a sovereign state's means of exchange."
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"For the past ten years I have had no financial problems."
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"A man with nothing to lend should refrain from borrowing."
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"When individuals are exchanging present goods against future goods they do not take account in their valuations of Variations in the objective exchange-value of money. Lenders and borrowers are not in the habit of allowing for possible future fluctuations in the objective exchange-value of money."
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"Wealth isn't about money. It's about options...and you always have options. Choose wisely. Live wealthy."
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"Thirty to 40 years ago, most financial decisions were fairly simple."
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"Actually criminal sanctions that are given could be up to five years for violating the rules and regulations under the campaign finance reform. This is like the Alien and Sedition Act of years and years ago, decades ago."
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"When buying shares, ask yourself, would you buy the whole company?"
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"The problem of how we finance the welfare state should not obscure a separate issue: if each person thinks he has an inalienable right to welfare, no matter what happens to the world, that's not equity, it's just creating a society where you can't ask anything of people."
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"The unions still have a job to do, representing their members' interests to governments and parliaments. And I think collective agreements still have a role, alongside markets and laws."
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"I had to think whether, after 50 years of hard slog, I was still lucid and fresh enough for the job."
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"The countries that share this conception should be able to go further together, without excluding the others, since they can still live in a greater community of exchange and co-operation."
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"The driving force behind the liberal counter-offensive in Europe has been a reaction against irresponsibility."
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"This desire for equity must not lead to an excess of welfare, where nobody is responsible for anything."
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"Any union that can't accept workers choosing their own representatives through universal franchise is finished."
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"Fundamentally, American society is composed of individuals who don't go out of their way to do each other favours."
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"These days there are not enough of such intermediary groups, between the state and the individual, with the result that political leaders are often unduly guided by opinion polls."
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"The European model is, first, a social and economic system founded on the role of the market, for no computer in the world can process information better than the market."
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