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I say ‘almost’ because about 3½% of children are born with genetic faults such as cleft lip or palate. However most people with unattractive faces can probably blame their parents for allowing them to grow up with poor posture.
“for in every country of the world, I believe, the avarice and injustice of princes and sovereign states, abusing the confidence of their subjects, have by degrees diminished the real quantity of metal, which had been originally contained in their coins.”
― The Real Price of Everything: Rediscovering the Six Classics of Economics
― The Real Price of Everything: Rediscovering the Six Classics of Economics
“Dare to think! Have the courage to use your own reason!’ is therefore the motto of the Enlightenment,” as stated in 1784 by the great German Enlightenment philosopher Immanuel Kant.1”
― The Psychology of Totalitarianism
― The Psychology of Totalitarianism
“Lenin was certainly right. There is no subtler, no surer means of overturning the existing basis of society than to debauch the currency. The process engages all the hidden forces of economic law on the side of destruction, and does it in a manner which not one man in a million is able to diagnose.”
― Broken Money: Why Our Financial System is Failing Us and How We Can Make it Better
― Broken Money: Why Our Financial System is Failing Us and How We Can Make it Better
“The stress on observation and the reality principle—you can believe what you see, so long as you see what I see—paid off beyond understanding.”
― The Wealth and Poverty of Nations: Why Some Are So Rich and Some So Poor
― The Wealth and Poverty of Nations: Why Some Are So Rich and Some So Poor
“Compared, indeed, with the more extravagant luxury of the great, his accommodation must no doubt appear extremely simple and easy; and yet it may be true, perhaps, that the accommodation of an European prince does not always so much exceed that of an industrious and frugal peasant, as the accommodation of the latter exceeds that of many an African king, the absolute masters of the lives and liberties of ten thousand naked savages.”
― The Real Price of Everything: Rediscovering the Six Classics of Economics
― The Real Price of Everything: Rediscovering the Six Classics of Economics
King Family Cousins
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A book club for King Family Cousins where we can have a shared bookshelf.
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