"Lenin is said to have declared that the……" — John Maynard Keynes

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• Knowledge is power. Most of us agree that something has to be done to strengthen Social Security, and I believe… — Conrad Burns
• To take from one because it is thought that his own industry and that of his father's has acquired too… — Thomas Jefferson
• The more power a government has the more it can act arbitrarily according to the whims and desires of the… — Rudolph Rummel
• Anyway that's a large part of what economics is - people arbitrarily, or as a matter of taste, assigning numerical… — Kim Stanley Robinson
• The difference is that we have the hardest and most painful evidence that there was a Holocaust. But, for the… — Thomas Sowell
• Out of the multitude of our sense experiences we take, mentally and arbitrarily, certain repeatedly occurring complexes of sense impression… — Albert Einstein
• Gold was not selected arbitrarily by governments to be the monetary standard. Gold had developed for many centuries on the… — Murray Rothbard
• As long as the government can arbitrarily decide which substances are legal and which are illegal, then those who remain… — Paul Krassner
• Good government is that which delivers the citizen from being done out of his life and property too arbitrarily and… — H. L. Mencken
• Of course the word chaos is used in rather a vague sense by a lot of writers, but in physics… — Murray Gell-Mann
• The progress of science requires the growth of understanding in both directions, downward from the whole to the parts and… — Freeman Dyson
• To the man who is truly ethical all life is sacred, including that which from the human point of view… — Albert Schweitzer

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