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• From the earliest days, the Rothschilds appreciated the importance of proximity to politicians, the men who determined not only the extent of…
• American Empire- it is an empire that lacks the drive to export its capital, its people and its culture to those backward…
• It's all very well for us to sit here in the west with our high incomes and cushy lives, and say it's…
• No civilization, no matter how mighty it may appear to itself, is indestructible.
• The West may collapse very suddenly. Complex civilizations do that, because they operate, most of the time, on the edge of chaos.
• It’s our generation that is witnessing the end of Western predominance. The average American used to be more than 20 times richer…
• A historian is battling all the time to remember as much as possible.
• As a teacher, my strategy is to encourage questioning. I'm the least authoritarian professor you'll ever meet.
• Between 1980 and 2000 the number of patents registered in Israel was 7652 compared with 367 for all the Arab countries combined.
• Today, the average Korean works a thousand hours more a year than the average German. A thousand. ... That is the end…
• For 500 years the West patented six killer applications that set it apart. The first to download them was Japan. Over the…
• When bond prices fall, interest rates soar, with painful consequences for all borrowers.

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