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This dilettantish inability to comprehend the essential issues of the conduct of production affairs is not only manifested in the writings of Marx and Engels.… — Ludwig von Mises
The goal is to win. It's not about making money. I have many much less risky ways of making money than this (buying Chelsea football… — Roman Abramovich
Probably the only people left who think that economics deserves a Nobel Prize are economists. It confirms their conceit that they're doing 'science' rather than… — Robert J. Samuelson
Whatever you tax you get less of. — Alan Greenspan
Gold is a relic from a time when government's were less trustworthy in these matters (currency debasement) than they are now. — John Maynard Keynes
What does a tax do? It takes either from the producer or the consumer a more or less sizable portion of the product destined in… — Gustave de Molinari
The chief value of the rule lies in preventing an immediate and obvious but inferior good from replacing a longer-range, less obvious but superior one. — Ralph Raico
You can only confiscate the wealth that exists at a given moment. You cannot confiscate future wealth - and that future wealth is less likely… — Thomas Sowell
There's no denying that a collapse in stock prices today would pose serious macroeconomic challenges for the United States. Consumer spending would slow, and the… — Ben Bernanke
The economic repercussions of a stock market crash depend less on the severity of the crash itself than on the response of economic policymakers, particularly… — Ben Bernanke
Our system of private health insurance that fails to provide coverage to so many of our citizens also contributes to the double-digit health care inflation… — John Conyers
We have a responsibility to protect the rights of generations, of all species, that cannot speak for themselves today. The global challenge of climate change… — Wangari Maathai
Even when nuclear power plants go horribly wrong, they do less damage to the planet and its people than coal-burning stations operating normally. — George Monbiot
Little by little a planetary prayer book is thus being composed by an increasingly united humanity seeking its oneness. Once again, but this time on… — Robert Muller
It is a campaign not for abundance but for austerity. It is a campaign not for more freedom but for less. Strangest of all, it… — George Monbiot
If you establish a democracy, you must in due time reap the fruits of a democracy. You will in due season have great impatience of… — Benjamin Disraeli
The natural scientists of the previous age knew less than we do and believed they were very close to the goal: we have taken very… — Georg C. Lichtenberg
My biggest sorrow, when looking back on my youth, is how much of it I somehow missed. Now, looking at my life today, I don't… — Marianne Williamson
What's at risk [in 100 years] if we do not take action, truly is the survival of civilization as we know it... Literally that is… — Al Gore
The bleak truth is that, under normal conditions, most of North America and Europe are buried under about 1.5km of ice. This bitterly frigid climate… — Philip K. Chapman

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