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    Thomas Sowell
    “I have never understood why it is "greed" to want to keep the money you have earned but not greed to want to take somebody else's money.”
    ― Thomas Sowell, Barbarians Inside the Gates and Other Controversial Essays
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    Thomas Sowell
    “Despite a voluminous and often fervent literature on "income distribution," the cold fact is that most income is not distributed: It is earned.”
    ― Thomas Sowell
    tags: distribution, earnings, economics, income, socialism, wealth
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    Thomas Sowell
    “Socialism is a wonderful idea. It is only as a reality that it has been disastrous. Among people of every race, color, and creed, all around the world, socialism has led to hunger in countries that used to have surplus food to export.... Nevertheless, for many of those who deal primarily in ideas, socialism remains an attractive idea -- in fact, seductive. Its every failure is explained away as due to the inadequacies of particular leaders. ”
    ― Thomas Sowell
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    Noam Chomsky
    “Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines that everybody else is saying,... [o]r else you say something which in fact is true, and it will sound like it's from Neptune.”
    ― Noam Chomsky, Propaganda and the Public Mind
    tags: truth
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    Noam Chomsky
    “If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.”
    ― Noam Chomsky
    tags: belief, believe, despise, expression, freedom, freedom-of-expression
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    John Lennon
    “When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.”
    ― John Lennon
    tags: inspirational, life
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    John Lennon
    “A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality.”
    ― John Lennon
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    Ha-Joon Chang
    “Once you realize that trickle-down economics does not work, you will see the excessive tax cuts for the rich as what they are -- a simple upward redistribution of income, rather than a way to make all of us richer, as we were told.”
    ― Ha-Joon Chang, 23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism
    tags: economics, economy, recession, social-justice, tax-cuts, taxation, taxes
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    George Orwell
    “In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”
    ― George Orwell
    tags: truth
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    Bruce Lee
    “Be like water making its way through cracks. Do not be assertive, but adjust to the object, and you shall find a way around or through it. If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves.

    Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water. If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle and it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now, water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.”
    ― Bruce Lee
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    Winston S. Churchill
    “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
    ― Winston S. Churchill
    tags: bravery, courage, failure, inspirational, success
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    Ha-Joon Chang
    “People 'over-produce' pollution because they are not paying for the costs of dealing with it.”
    ― Ha-Joon Chang, 23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism
    tags: environment, green, sustainability
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    Agatha Christie
    “If you place your head in a lion's mouth, then you cannot complain one day if he happens to bite it off.”
    ― Agatha Christie
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    Ha-Joon Chang
    “The top 10 per cent of the US population appropriated 91 per cent of income growth between 1989 and 2006, while the top 1 per cent took 59 per cent.”
    ― Ha-Joon Chang, 23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism
    tags: free-market, inequality
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    Noam Chomsky
    “It is the responsibility of intellectuals to speak the truth and expose lies.”
    ― Noam Chomsky
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    Agatha Christie
    “One is left with the horrible feeling now that war settles nothing; that to win a war is as disastrous as to lose one.”
    ― Agatha Christie
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    Ha-Joon Chang
    “Running the company for the shareholders often reduces its long-term growth potential.”
    ― Ha-Joon Chang, 23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism
    tags: business-advice
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    Noam Chomsky
    “That's the whole point of good propaganda. You want to create a slogan that nobody's going to be against, and everybody's going to be for. Nobody knows what it means, because it doesn't mean anything.”
    ― Noam Chomsky
    tags: books, politics
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    Winston S. Churchill
    “You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.”
    ― Winston Churchill
    tags: attributed-no-source, convictions, criticism
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    Ha-Joon Chang
    “The best way to boost the economy is to redistribute wealth downward, as poorer people tend to spend a higher proportion of their income.”
    ― Ha-Joon Chang, 23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism
    tags: economy
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    Agatha Christie
    “It is really a hard life. Men will not be nice to you if you are not good-looking, and women will not be nice to you if you are.”
    ― Agatha Christie, The Man in the Brown Suit
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    Robert Twigger
    “Every advance in information technology involves choosing what you want to preserve and what you want to ditch. Scanning rare books on to microfilm is a costly business. The library won't let you do it yourself - they decide first which books should be scanned and which should just rot away in the basement.
    Against that eventuality, people should start hoarding the kind of books committees of rational people will decide against scanning into a database.”
    ― Robert Twigger
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    Ha-Joon Chang
    “People who live in poor countries have to be entrepreneurial even just to survive.”
    ― Ha-Joon Chang, 23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism
    tags: third-world
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    George Orwell
    “At 50, everyone has the face he deserves.”
    ― George Orwell
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    Agatha Christie
    “Instinct is a marvelous thing. It can neither be explained nor ignored.”
    ― Agatha Christie, The Mysterious Affair at Styles
    tags: instinct
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    Mark Twain
    “′Classic′ - a book which people praise and don't read.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: books, classic, reading
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy
    tags: change, tolstoy
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    Albert Einstein
    “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: attributed-no-source, human-nature, humor, infinity, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe
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    Winston S. Churchill
    “The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.”
    ― Winston S. Churchill
    tags: democracy, elite, elitism, elitist, meritocracy, peasant, voter, voting
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    Winston S. Churchill
    “Never, never, never give in!”
    ― Winston S. Churchill
    tags: perseverance, wisdom
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