"Governments resort to inflation with popular support because the people apparently are naïve enough to believe that they can have their cake and eat it, too."

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Source : Leonard E. Read (1990). “The freedom philosophy”, Foundation for Economic Education

Leonard Read

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“A painter must think of everything he sees as being there entirely for his own use and pleasure.”
“It's kind of like when you get married, you kinda go into it wanting to remember everything. And once it's done, you can't remember a single thing.”
“As for AIDS, it's a plague. We are human, we get plagues. They come along every so often, kill off two thirds of the population; in the next generation it's a quarter; after that it's a childhood disease.”
“You're spoilt as an actor if you are in that small percentage that works regularly.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I didn't know what to do. How do you tell an eight-year-old boy his mother's going to die? I tried. In my own stumbling way I tried to prepare Jim for it. Nowadays, he lives in a world we don't understand too well, the actor's world. We don't see too much of him. But he's a good boy, my Jim. A good boy, and I'm very proud of him. Not easy to understand, no sir. He's not easy to understand. But he's all man, and he'll make his mark. Mind you, my boy will make his mark.”
“I've never been in a bad play. There might have been bad productions and I might have been bad in them, but I've never been in a play that wasn't interesting or worthwhile doing on some level.”
“I'm on it pretty much all the time. I edit Wikipedia every day, I'm on Facebook, I'm on Twitter, I'm reading the news. During one of the US elections, I actually went through my computer and I blocked myself from looking at the major newspaper sites and Google News because I wasn't getting any work done.”
“The great mountains of the world are a great remedy if men but did know it against our modern discontent and ambitions. In the hills is wisdom's fount. They are deep in time.”

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