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At the time, my personal research objectives were to provide Keynesian economics with more rigorous foundations and to tighten and elaborate the logic of macroeconomic and monetary theory. ↗

— James Tobin

#elaborate #foundations #logic #monetary #more

The miserable failures of capitalist economies in the Great Depression were root causes of worldwide social and political disasters. ↗

— James Tobin

#causes #depression #disasters #economies #failures

The debates of that great assembly are frequently vague and perplexed, seeming to be dragged rather than to march, to the intended goal. Something of this sort must, I think, always happen in public democratic assemblies. ↗

— Alexis de Tocqueville

#assemblies #assembly #debates #democratic #dragged

There are two things which a democratic people will always find very difficult - to begin a war and to end it. ↗

— Alexis de Tocqueville

#begin #democratic #difficult #end #find

Those that despise people will never get the best out of others and themselves. ↗

— Alexis de Tocqueville

#despise #get #never #others #out

No protracted war can fail to endanger the freedom of a democratic country. ↗

— Alexis de Tocqueville

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Consider any individual at any period of his life, and you will always find him preoccupied with fresh plans to increase his comfort. ↗

— Alexis de Tocqueville

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Grant me thirty years of equal division of inheritances and a free press, and I will provide you with a republic. ↗

— Alexis de Tocqueville

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There's no worse crime in journalism these days than simply deciding something's a story because Drudge links to it. ↗

— Chuck Todd

#crime #days #deciding #drudge #journalism

Every minute this broad spends outside of bed is a waste of time. ↗

— Michael Todd

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