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• Sooner or later for good or ill, a united mankind, equipped with science and power, will probably turn its attention to the other planets, not only for economic exploitation, but also as possible homes for man. . . . The goal for the solar system would seem to be that it should become an interplanetary community of very diverse worlds . . . . Through the pooling of this wealth of experience, through this 'commonwealth of worlds,' new levels of mental and spiritual development should become possible, levels at present quite inconceivable to man.

  Olaf Stapledon

  Spiritual, Home, Men

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• By maintaining the separation of church and state, the United States has avoided the intolerance which has so divided the rest of the world with religious wars.

  Barry Goldwater

  Religious, War, Years

  Remarks in the Congressional Record, www.nytimes.com. September 15, 1981.

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• There is a long American tradition of suspicion of concentrated economic power because of its tendency to corrupt government and turn it from a democracy into a plutocracy.

  Zephyr Teachout

  Government, Long, Political

  Zephyr Teachout (2014). “Corruption in America: From Benjamin Franklin's Snuff Box to Citizens United”, p.301, Harvard University Press

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• The extreme geniality of San Francisco's economic, intellectual and political climate makes it the most varied and challenging city in the United States.

  James A. Michener

  Cities, San Francisco, Political

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• Salaries and wages must reflect the reality of the enterprise's economic performance; deviations from the planned performance should be reflected in pay.

  Samora Machel

  Reality, Salary, Wages

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• In a society of little economic development, universal inactivity accompanies universal poverty. You survive not by struggling against nature, or by increasing production, or by relentless labor; instead you survive by expending as little energy as possible, by striving constantly to achieve a state of immobility.

  Ryszard Kapuscinski

  Struggle, Energy, Development

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• If you were born in Britain after World War II, you see a continuous atmosphere of decline, moral and economic and political.

  Stephen Bayley

  War, Political, Atmosphere

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• Freedom of enterprise was from the beginning not altogether a blessing. As the liberty to work or to starve, it spelled toil, insecurity, and fear for the vast majority of the population. If the individual were no longer compelled to prove himself on the market, as a free economic subject, the disappearance of this freedom would be one of the greatest achievements of civilization.

  Herbert Marcuse

  Business, Blessing, Civilization

  Herbert Marcuse (2013). “One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society”, p.4, Routledge

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• It is, indeed, part of the liberal attitude to assume that, especially in the economic field, the self-regulating forces of the market will somehow bring about the required adjustments to new conditions, although no one can foretell how they will do this in a particular instance. There is perhaps no single factor contributing so much to people

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Attitude, Self, People

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• Pressure selling is firmly rooted in American economic life, and I'm sorry it is, for it should not be necessary. Some people think part of the panic following 1929 was due to too much pressure in selling.

  Vash Young

  Sorry, Thinking, People

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• An active propaganda machinery controlled bv the world's largest corporations constantly reassures us that consumerism is the path to happiness, governmental restraint of market excess is the cause our distress, and economic globalization is both a historical inevitability and a boon to the human species.

  David Korten

  Historical, Growth, Causes

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• There is much of economic theory which is pursued for no better reason than its intellectual attraction; it is a good game. We have no reason to be ashamed of that, since the same would hold for many branches of mathematics.

  Sir John Richard Hicks

  Games, Intellectual, Branches

  1979 Causality in Economics.

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• Important as economic unification is for the recovery of Germany and of Europe, the German people must recognize that the basic cause of their suffering and distress is the war which the Nazi dictatorship brought upon the world.

  James F. Byrnes

  War, Recovery, Europe

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• The carrying out of the Potsdam Agreement has, however, been obstructed by the failure of the Allied Control Council to take the necessary steps to enable the German economy to function as an economic unit.

  James F. Byrnes

  Agreement, Steps, Economy

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• We couldn't be making as much money, if we had to deal with stranger behaviour. And right now, anybody who slows down our economic productivity, off they go. We have a place for them, the psychiatric institution. That's the main thing, they slow things down.

  Chester Brown

  Behaviour, Stranger, Slow Down

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• Nobody wants to have in their CV in the upper echelons of the American economic family that they nationalised major banks.

  Paul Keating

  Want, Majors

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I think the rise of China is one of the great events of all economic and human history, and I think this will be overwhelmingly a positive thing for the region and the world.

  Paul Keating

  Thinking, Events, World

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• To me, its seems necessary to rediscover - and the energy to do so exists - that even the political and economic spheres need moral responsibility, a responsibility that is born in man's heart and, in the end, has to do with the presence or absence of God.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Heart, Responsibility, Men

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• At the crash of economic collapse of which the rumblings can already be heard, the sleeping soldiers of the proletariat will awake as at the fanfare of the Last Judgment and the corpses of the victims of the struggle will arise and demand an accounting from those who are loaded down with curses.

  Karl Liebknecht

  Struggle, Sleep, Soldier

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• Open political and economic systems have been gaining ground and there's a good reason for it. They work better.

  George P. Shultz

  Political, Reason, Has Beens

  "Father of the Bush Doctrine". Interview with Daniel Henninger, www.wsj.com. April 29, 2006.

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• I'm a latecomer to the environmental issue, which for years seemed to me like an excuse for more government regulation. But I can see that in rich societies, voters are paying less attention to economic issues and more to issues of the spirit, including the environment.

  David Frum

  Government, Years, Issues

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• Partly because of the desperate economic situation in the country, what were once the leading institutions of conservatism are constrained.

  David Frum

  Country, Desperate, Institutions

  "Frum thinks critique of GOP led to boot -- 2 big bipartisan bashes -- Chris Matthews, cornered -- HHS Secretary is vastly more powerful -- Jackie Calmes to White House beat -- Kimberly Dozier to AP". www.politico.com. March 26, 2010.

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• In my district, the budget scales back and eliminates several long-term shore protection projects important to the safety and economic security of Long Island.

  Tim Bishop

  Islands, Safety, Long

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• In the EU you have half a billion people who share a common belief in democracy, in rights, in the kind of economic life we want.

  Catherine Ashton

  Rights, People, Democracy

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• Raising taxes is the last thing we should do amid the weakest economic recovery since World War II. Unfortunately, even if we avoid the full 'Taxmageddon' scenario, President Obama's health care law also contains a new surtax on investment that will take effect in 2013.

  John Cornyn

  War, Recovery, Law

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