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There's a certain part of the contented majority who love anybody who is worth a billion dollars.
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Modesty is a vastly overrated virtue.
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In the autumn of 1929 the mightiest of Americans were, for a brief time, revealed as human beings.
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The values of a society totally preoccupied with making money are not altogether reassuring.
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One of the uses of depression is the exposure of what auditors fail to find.
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Wall Street's crime, in the eyes of its classical enemies, was less its power than its morals.
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More die in the United States of too much food than of too little.
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We do not manufacture wants for goods we do not produce.
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One man's consumption becomes his neighbor's wish.
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It is in the long run that the corporation lives.
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Very important functions can be performed very wastefully and often are.
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The greater the wealth the thicker will be the dirt.
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Simple minds, presumably, are the easiest to manage.
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No hungry man who is also sober can be persuaded to use his last dollar for anything but food.
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Only in very recent times has the average man been a source of savings.
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Men are, in fact, either sustained by organization or they sustain organization.
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Those who yearn for the defeat of their enemy are said to wish that he might write a book.
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Educators have yet to realize how deeply the industrial system is dependent upon them.
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But it can be laid down as a rule that those who speak most of liberty are least inclined to use it.
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In the United States, though power corrupts, the expectation of power paralyzes.
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The process by which banks create money is so simple that the mind is repelled.
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Why is anything intrinsically so valueless so obviously desirable?
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Truth has anciently been called the first casualty of war. Money may, in fact, have priority.
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The foresight of financial experts was, as so often, a poor guide to the future.
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If all else fails immortality can always be assured by adequate error.
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Foresight is an imperfect thing -- all prevision in economics is imperfect.
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With the American failure came world failure.
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Nothing is more portable than rich people and their money
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Of all classes the rich are the most noticed and the least studied.
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American university presidents are a nervous breed; I have never thought well of them as a class.
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Conscience is better served by a myth.
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If inheritance qualifies one for office, intelligence cannot be a requirement.
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Who is king in the world of the blind when there isn't even a one eyed man?
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The privileged have regularly invited their own destruction with their greed.
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