Quote by Henry Hazlitt
The art of economics consists in looking not merely at the immedia

The art of economics consists in looking not merely at the immediate but at the longer effects of any act or policy it consists in tracing the consequences of that policy not merely for one group but for all groups. – Henry Hazlitt

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The first requisite of a sound monetary system is that it put the least possible power over the quantity or quality of money in the hands of the politicians. – Henry Hazlitt

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I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil, until it founds and luxuriantly grows its own forms of art, poems, schools, theology, displacing all that exists, or that has been produced anywhere in the past, under opposite influences. – Walt Whitman

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The forties, seventies, and the nineties, when money was scarce, were great periods, when the art world retracted but it was also reborn. – Jerry Saltz

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Art has a double face, of expression and illusion, just like science has a double face: the reality of error and the phantom of truth. – Publilius Syrus

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In its most limited sense, modern, art would seem to concern itself only with the technical innovations of the period. – Edward Hopper

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We trifle when we assign limits to our desires, since nature hath set none. – Christian Nestell Bovee

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Taxation, for example, is eternally lively; it concerns nine-tenths of us more directly than either smallpox or golf, and has just as much drama in it; moreover, it has been mellowed and made gay by as many gaudy, preposterous theories. – H.L. Mencken

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One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life comes from being happy over the good fortune of others. – Robert A. Heinlein

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