"Russia will occupy most of the good food lands of central Europe while we have the industrial portions. We must find some way of persuading Russia to play ball."

-- Henry L. Stimson

#Russia Quotes #Europe Quotes #Land Quotes

“Success and failure. We think of them as opposites, but they're really not. They're companions - the hero and the sidekick.”
“It is indeed paradoxical that, while the apologists of capitalism usually consider the 'price mechanism' to be the great advantage of the capitalist system, price flexibility proves to be a characteristic feature of the socialist economy.”
“Fear is an enemy that can be killed only at close range. The closest range of all is intimacy. The deeper the fear is embedded in oneâ€™s spirit, the more vulnerable it is.”
“Poverty, chastity, and obedience are extremely difficult. But there are always the graces if you will pray for them.”

Source : Kathryn Hulme, Edward Streeter, Helen Howe, Frank O'Rourke, Winston Graham (1956). “The Nun's Story, Merry Christmas Mr. Baxter, The Success, The Diamond Hitch, The Sleeping Partner”
“Our ideal society finds it essential to put a rent on land as a way of maximizing the total consumption available to the society. ...Pure land rent is in the nature of a 'surplus' which can be taxed heavily without distorting production incentives or efficiency. A land value tax can be called 'the useful tax on measured land surplus'.”
“Skins may differ, but affection Dwells in white and black the same.”
“I think I was always a drama queen. I really, really, really loved playing pretend.”
“Let people who have to observe sickness and death look back and try to register in their observation the appearances which have preceded relapse, attack or death, and not assert that there were none, or that there were not the right ones. A want of the habit of observing conditions and an inveterate habit of taking averages are each of them often equally misleading.”

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