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The Deficit Myth: Modern Monetary Theory and the Birth of the People's Economy

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Tearmoon Empire: Volume 4 by Nozomu Mochitsuki

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Humans were, at the end of the day, creatures of interpretation. They heard only what they wanted to hear and saw only what they wanted to see.

“Society gained more by not placing excessive power in the hands of mediocre politicians than it lost by limiting the power of great heroes and statesmen who might or might not appear once every few centuries.”
― Yoshiki Tanaka, Endurance

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“To use the machineries of justice to commit injustice is the deepest offense to the Father of Winter.” He”
― Lois McMaster Bujold, Penric’s Mission

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“When political authority and journalism colluded with one another, democracy lost its ability to critique and cleanse itself, allowing a deadly infection to take root.”
― Yoshiki Tanaka, Endurance

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“We dispute the arbitrary distribution of power and wealth, which is claimed as the natural order, but which is in fact not natural at all but rather artificially created and sustained by ancient privileges.”
― Kate Elliott, Cold Fire

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“I had not realized how much anger I held against my heart for all the people who use others as nothing more than tools to build a house for themselves, who wrap chains around others and then claim they have the right and even the obligation to do so.”
― Kate Elliott, Cold Steel

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