Percy L. Greaves, Jr. famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Every political creation of new money transfers wealth from workers and savers to those who are spending in the market place newly created monetary units which no one has earned.
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All political spendings for purposes beyond the protection of life and property are a snare and a delusion.
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We all want things that are not necessarily essential, but we always choose those actions which we think will best improve the situation from our viewpoint. This means that the ideas that men hold determine their choice of actions. This means that the most important thing in the world is ideas.
-- Percy L. Greaves, Jr.
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People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.
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Calvinism is an all-embracing system of principles... It is rooted in a form of religion which was peculiarly its own, and form that specific religious consciousness there was developed first a particular theology, then a special church-order, and then a given form for political and social life.
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You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it.
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Industry is increased, commodities are multiplied, agriculture and manufacturers flourish: and herein consists the true wealth and prosperity of a state.
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I'm certainly not into money and prestige. For me there is simply nothing more exciting than people involved in the creation of great products. That is what drives me.
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Disrespect earns the displeasure of the creator and the creation.
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All abuse and waste of God's creatures are spoil and robbery on the property of the Creator.
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...Any authentic creation is a gift to the future.
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It is quite exciting, incidentally, to know that the Genesis account of the creation of mankind through its first parentage in Adam and Eve bears the marks of derivation from the primary Egyptian symbolic depiction.
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These gun laws are very much the creation of the Prime Minister.
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