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The creditor hath a better memory than the debtor.
The creditor hath a better memory than the debtor.
The best inheritance a parent can give his children is a few minutes of his time each day.
The best inheritance a parent can give his children is a few minutes of his time each day.
The 1980s are to debt what the 1960s were to sex. The 1960s left a hangover. So will the 1980s.
The 1980s are to debt what the 1960s were to sex. The 1960s left a hangover. So will the 1980s.
Based on first-hand evidence of your own senses - the improved health and later ages at which acquaintances die nowadays read more
Based on first-hand evidence of your own senses - the improved health and later ages at which acquaintances die nowadays as compared with the past; the material goods that we now possess; the speed at which information, entertainment, and we ourselves move freely throughout the world - it seems to me that a person must be literally deaf and blind not to perceive that humanity is in a much better state than ever before.
Commerce is the cure for the most destructive prejudices.
Commerce is the cure for the most destructive prejudices.
The world does not pay for what a person knows, but it pays for what a person does with what read more
The world does not pay for what a person knows, but it pays for what a person does with what he knows.
This world is run with far too tight a rein for luck to interfere. Fortune sells her wares; she never read more
This world is run with far too tight a rein for luck to interfere. Fortune sells her wares; she never gives them. In some form or other, we pay for her favors; or we go empty away.
Price fixing does not represent simply windfall gains and losses to particular groups according to whether the price happens to read more
Price fixing does not represent simply windfall gains and losses to particular groups according to whether the price happens to be set higher or lower than it would be otherwise. It represents a net lose to the economy as a whole to the extent that many transactions do not take place at all, because the mutually acceptable possibilities have been reduced.
Not understanding the process of a spontaneously-ordered economy goes hand-in-hand with not understanding the creation of resources and wealth. And read more
Not understanding the process of a spontaneously-ordered economy goes hand-in-hand with not understanding the creation of resources and wealth. And when a person does not understand the creation of resources and wealth, the only intellectual alternative is to believe that increasing wealth must be at the cost of someone else. This belief that our good fortune must be an exploitation of others may be the taproot of false prophecy about doom that our evil ways must bring upon us.
