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In my book I don't just demonstrate that free enterprise is the most efficient way of organizing an economy - which it is. I also show that it's an expression of American values, and, thus, that a fight for free enterprise is very much a fight for our culture. ↗

— Arthur C. Brooks

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So often we rob tomorrow's memories by today's economies. ↗

— John Mason Brown

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Industry, economy, honesty, and kindness form a quartet of virtues that will never be improved upon. ↗

— James Oliver

#form #honesty #improved #industry #kindness

The struggle is always worthwhile, if the end be worthwhile and the means honorable; foreknowledge of defeat is not sufficient reason to withdraw from the contest. ↗

— Steven Brust

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A terrorist nuclear detonation in a western city would destroy all economic confidence. ↗

— John Bruton

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I think women as well as men are concerned about jobs and the economy and spending and, and other issues. They're concerned that when their kids graduate from college they have an economy and they have a future in this country and they, they have the same opportunity that we've had and our grandparents have had. ↗

— Ken Buck

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It is a curious thought that the earliest description of the steam-engine in antiquity describes its use for the magic opening of the temple doors, when the priests lit the fires on the altars, to deceive the populace into ascribing to a deity what was the work of the engineer. In much the same way today, the almost boundless fecundity of the creative scientific discoveries and inventions of the age are being appropriated for the purpose of the mysterious opening of doors into the holy of holies of the temples of mammon by a hierarchy of imposters and humbugs, whom it is the first task of a sane civilization to expose and clear out. ↗

— Frederick Soddy

#money #politics #science #technocracy #age

E eu pergunto aos economistas políticos, aos moralistas, se já calcularam o número de indivíduos que é forçoso condenar à miséria, ao trabalho desproporcionado, à desmoralização, à infâmia, à ignorância crapulosa, à desgraça invencível, à penúria absoluta, para produzir um rico? ↗

— Almeida Garrett

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We're trying to run a 21st century society and economy with 19th century Darwinian, competitive, crude ideas. ↗

— Susan George

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Leadership to me means duty, honor, country. It means character, and it means listening from time to time. ↗

— George W. Bush

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