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William Irwin Thompson

"In the domain of cops and robbers, an interdiction serves to structure a black market and a shadow economy."

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A.E. Samaan

"Since we took office, inflation, the fiscal deficit and the balance of payments current account deficit have all fallen. GDP growth, foreign exchange reserves, stock market valuations, and investor confidence have all increased. This success is the result of a series of well thought out policies."

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"And it will often happen that a man with wealth in the form of coined money will not have enough to eat, and what a ridiculous kind of wealth is that which even in abundance will not save you from dying with hunger!"

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"Market economy favors the have against the have not."

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"They only let us live in millions for the sake of the economy. I don't know what will happen by the time they figure out how to run the economy without the people."

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"But economic recovery must be earned. And it will be earned by entrepreneurs and it will be earned by small businesses."

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"Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists."

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"My first priority is growing this economy in the long term, and stimulating it in the short term."

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"Our growing, robust economy is able to provide the average American citizen access to the best social program there is - a steady job."

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"Know that each acre of fallow ought to support yearly two sheep at the least, then a hundred acres of fallow can support two hundred sheep, two hundred acres, four hundred sheep and so on."

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A.E. Samaan

"The ways by which you may get your money almost without exception lead downward. To have done anything by which you earn money 'merely' is to be truly idle or worse. If the labourer gets no more than the wages which his employer pays him, he is cheated, he cheats himself.. If I should sell both my forenoons and afternoons to society, as most appear to do, I am sure that for me there would be nothing left worth living for.. You must get your living by loving."

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"Idealistic reformers are dangerous because their idealism has no roots in love, but is simply a hysterical and unbalanced rage for order amidst their own chaos."
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"For the first time in human evolution, the individual life is long enough, and the cultural transformation swift enough, that the individual mind is now a constituent player in the global transformation of human culture."
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"If you do not create your destiny, you will have your fate inflicted upon you."
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