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Up until the Depression, recession had a moral character: it was s

Up until the Depression, recession had a moral character: it was supposed to purge the body economic of the greed and excess that attends a business expansion. – James Buchan

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In modern society, where most people live in cities, and where both needs and wishes are absolved through the same remote agency – money – the distinction between wishes and needs has altogether vanished. – James Buchan

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Society
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Saudi Arabia is a puritanical state that claims a monopoly of wisdom and virtue. – James Buchan

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Wisdom
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Whatever else it was, Adolf Hitlers short-lived regime was also a colossal industrial process by which the wealth and productive power of much of Europe was wrenched from its normal purposes and converted into a machine for killing. – James Buchan

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power
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Its like you always have to put on a happy face, be the phony baloney, and Im so not that. I never was that Ill never be that. That is part of the business that I dont like. Maybe that will always keep me an outsider, I dont know. But thats fine. – Chloe Sevigny

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Business

I dont think meals have any business being deductible. Im for separation of calories and corporations. – Ralph Nader

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Business

Business opportunities are like buses, theres always another one coming. – Richard Branson

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Business

Most of the trouble in this world has been caused by folks who cant mind their own business, because they have no business of their own to mind, any more than a smallpox virus has. – William S. Burroughs

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Business

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We have to be active about kindness and about peace. Ive always fantasized that it would be great if there was a Department of Peace. – Dave Matthews

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Psychoanalysis can unravel some of the forms of madness; it remains a stranger to the sovereign enterprise of unreason. It can neither limit nor transcribe, nor most certainly explain, what is essential in this enterprise. – Michel Foucault

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Know thyself, especially thyself after a couple of drinks. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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The death of anti-gay hate speech is no doubt being hastened by the head-spinning speed with which gays as a group – to say nothing of gay marriage – are becoming an unremarkable and even quite traditional parts of American life. – Jeffrey Kluger

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