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The cruel irony is that poor people who live in communities like Dewsbury Moor actually pay more in tax as a proportion of their wage packets than many of the rich journalists and politicians who attack them.
“Better an end with horror than a horror without end.”
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“The present order often clumsy often stupid has this advantage over any other. It works. Doubtless it will merge by degrees into another order and it will also work. But not so much as to what it is, but as into what men will bring into it.”
― Henry Ford Autobiography: My Life and Work + 10 Bonus Biographies!
― Henry Ford Autobiography: My Life and Work + 10 Bonus Biographies!
“The end of money is not ease but the opportunity to perform more service.”
― My Life And Work
― My Life And Work
“Strive for minimum waste, minimum profit, maximum distribution.”
― My Life And Work
― My Life And Work
“The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation. From the desperate city you go into the desperate country, and have to console yourself with the bravery of minks and muskrats. A stereotyped but unconscious despair is concealed even under what are called the games and amusements of mankind. There is no play in them, for this comes after work. But it is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things..”
― Civil Disobedience and Other Essays
― Civil Disobedience and Other Essays
Kevin’s 2025 Year in Books
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