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"The do-it-yourself version of pensions is a flop, as many Americans have painfully learned."
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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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Personal Development
"Pico Mundo is a prosperous town. But no degree of prosperity can be sufficient to eliminate all misfortune, and sloth is impervious to opportunity."
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Personal Development
"The problem was how to keep the wheels of industry turning without increasing the real wealth of the world. Goods must be produced, but they must not be distributed."
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Personal Development
"Belonging to the working class is the economy's punishment for those who did what they were told to do in class."
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Personal Development
"The world economy would collapse if a significant number of people were to realize and then act on the realization that it is possible to enjoy many if not most of the things that they enjoy without first having to own them."
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Personal Development
"Not every single broke and unemployed person needs a job, some need customers."
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Personal Development
"Civilization transformed man from a food gatherer to a gatherer of pieces of paper: diplomas, employment contracts, money, etc."
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Personal Development
"Economy is the method by which we prepare today to afford the improvements of tomorrow."
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"Money isn't the only thing that must flow and circulate in order to have good value: good turns and gifts must flow and circulate . . . for any social system to remain in balance."
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"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."
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"Children born today have a fifty-fifty chance of living to 100."
Chance
"If US per capita income continues to grow at a rate of 1.5 percent a year, the country will have plenty of money to finance comfortable retirements and high-quality healthcare for all citizens, including those at the bottom of the wage ladder."
Finance
"In the deregulated realm of US banking and finance, crime does occasionally pay for its foul deeds, not in prison time but by making modest rebates to the victims."
Time
"Leaks and whispers are a daily routine of news-gathering in Washington."
News
"Animal-rights advocates remind us of this admonition: The ways in which people treat animals will be reflected in how people relate to one another."
People
"The economy is not governed with the bottom half in mind."
Economy
"The ways in which people treat animals will be reflected in how people relate to one another."
People
"Americans cannot teach democracy to the world until they restore their own."
Politics
"A profound political question is suddenly on the table: Must the country continue to give precedence to private financial gain and market determinism over human lives and broad public values?"
Finance
"As the world's finest democracy, we do not do guillotines. But there are other less bloody rituals of humiliation, designed to reassure the populace that order is restored, the Republic cleansed."
Democracy
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