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• Many individuals are doing what they can. But real success can only come if there is a change in our… — David Attenborough
• All of the problems we're facing with debt are manmade problems. We created them. It's called fantasy economics. Fantasy economics… — Michele Bachmann
• Everyone wants to live at the expense of the state. They forget that the state wants to live at the… — Frederic Bastiat
• Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else. — Frederic Bastiat
• They will come to learn in the end, at their own expense, that it is better to endure competition for… — Frederic Bastiat
• Often the masses are plundered and do not know it. — Frederic Bastiat
• I beg you, look for the words 'social justice' or 'economic justice' on your church Web site. If you find… — Glenn Beck
• I served seven years as the chair of the Princeton economics department where I had responsibility for major policy decisions,… — Ben Bernanke
• Ignorance is an evil weed, which dictators may cultivate among their dupes, but which no democracy can afford among its… — William Beveridge
• Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility. — Ambrose Bierce
• And I know this happens because I took economics, and I'd explain it to ya, but I flunked that course.… — Lewis Black
• Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are. — Bertolt Brecht

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