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By a continuing process of inflation government can confiscate secretly and unobserved an important part of the wealth of their citizens.

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John Maynard Keynes
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Category: Government

Authors

A. A. MilneA. B. YehoshuaA. Bartlett GiamattiA. C. BensonA. E. HousmanA. E. van VogtA. J. JacobsA. J. LangerA. J. LieblingA. J. McLean

Topics Index

1 Age

  • 1. We accumulate our opinions at an age when our understanding is at its weakest.
  • 2. I was taught from a young age that many people would treat me as a second-class citizen because I was African-American and because I was female.
  • 3. A man is a fool if he drinks before he reaches the age of 50 and a fool if he doesn't afterward.

2 Amazing

  • 1. In my fifty years of experience and memory I have seen the most amazing increase in the standard of living of a people ever achieved anywhere in the world. This is why I am so sure that our system of free competition and industrial development is sound and must be preserved.
  • 2. Partly because his life ended before the age of 50 Hamilton was defined by the other founding fathers and he managed with amazing consistency to alienate most of them.
  • 3. I started crying the other day just thinking that the baby is going to leave me soon! You have this relationship with this person in your belly and it's really amazing.

3 Anger

  • 1. Experts say you should never hit your children in anger. When is a good time? When you're feeling festive?
  • 2. Anger is never without an argument but seldom with a good one.
  • 3. When anger rises think of the consequences.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. Experts on romance say for a happy marriage there has to be more than a passionate love. For a lasting union they insist there must be a genuine liking for each other. Which in my book is a good definition for friendship.
  • 2. You marry somebody you love everything about them. You grow to learn about them. You never learn everything.
  • 3. I did that Dior Couture 60th anniversary show in July. It took so long to get ready I think I would have rather been watching.

5 Architecture

  • 1. First there is the bare beauty of the logs themselves with their long lines and firm curves. Then there is the open charm felt of the structural features which are not hidden under plaster and ornament but are clearly revealed a charm felt in Japanese architecture.
  • 2. I feel however that we architects have a special duty and mission… (to contribute) to the socio-cultural development of architecture and urban planning.
  • 3. The rules of navigation never navigated a ship. The rules of architecture never built a house.
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