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“Charity is a cold grey loveless thing. If a rich man wants to help the poor, he should pay his taxes gladly, not dole out money at a whim.”
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“Upton Sinclair once said, ‘It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.”
― Adults in the Room: My Battle with Europe's Deep Establishment
― Adults in the Room: My Battle with Europe's Deep Establishment
“When Gandhi was asked what he thought of Western civilization, he famously replied that “it would be a very good idea.”
― And the Weak Suffer What They Must? Europe's Crisis and America's Economic Future
― And the Weak Suffer What They Must? Europe's Crisis and America's Economic Future
“The socialism I believe in is everyone working for each other, everyone having a share of the rewards. It's the way I see football, the way I see life.”
― The Quotable Shankly
― The Quotable Shankly
“The ancient Greek word for money, for currency, is 'nomisma.' It comes from the verb 'to imagine.'"
"So money has value to the extent that we imagine that it has value, according to the ancient Greeks. They knew that more than 2,000 years ago, and we kind of forget that simple, important notion at times.”
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"So money has value to the extent that we imagine that it has value, according to the ancient Greeks. They knew that more than 2,000 years ago, and we kind of forget that simple, important notion at times.”
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