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A man with a scant vocabulary will almost certainly be a weak thinker. The richer and more copious one's vocabulary and the greater one's awareness…

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The monetary managers are fond of telling us that they have substituted 'responsible money management' for the gold standard. But there is…
The times call for courage. The times call for hard work. But if the demands are high, it is because the stakes…
Government-to-government foreign aid promotes statism, centralized planning, socialism, dependence, pauperization, inefficiency, and waste. It prolongs the poverty it is designed to cure.…
Everything we get, outside of the free gifts of nature, must in some way be paid for. The world is full of…
There is no more certain way to deter employment than to harass and penalize employers.
It is often sadly remarked that the bad economists present their errors to the public better than the good economists present their…
Government can't give us anything without depriving us of something else.
The larger the percentage of the national income taken by taxes the greater the deterrent to private production and employment. When the…
The ideas which now pass for brilliant innovations and advances are in fact mere revivals of ancient errors, and a further proof…
What is put into the hands of B cannot be put into the hands of A.
Everywhere the means is erected into the end, and the end itself is forgotten.
Mere inflation-that is, the mere issuance of more money, with the consequence of higher wages and prices-may look like the creation of…

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The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen… — Wystan Hugh Auden
The attention of a traveller, should be particularly turned, in the first place, to the various works of Nature, to mark the… — William Bartram
To those of you who received honours, awards and distinctions, I say well done. And to the C students, I say you,… — George W. Bush
Distinctions drawn by the mind are not necessarily equivalent to distinctions in reality. — Thomas Aquinas
For our immigration policy to make sense, it is necessary to make distinctions between those who obey the law, and those who… — Barbara Jordan
The distinctions separating the social classes are false; in the last analysis they rest on force. — Albert Einstein
One man may hit the mark, another blunder; but heed not these distinctions. Only from the alliance of the one, working with… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Where there are no distinctions there can be no superiority; perfect equality affords no temptation. — Thomas Paine
Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is reason to suspect, that the distinctions of mankind have more show than value, when it is found that all agree… — Samuel Johnson
Meditation should not be a thing apart from life; it should be amidst life, it should be a part of life an… — Rajneesh

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