"The enemy and his allies are now at the gates of the capitalists' fortress. Is there any hope that the businessman will finally sense the danger to himself and the system of which he is a part and rise to meet the challenge?"

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Source : Benjamin A. Rogge (1979). “Can Capitalism Survive?”, Liberty Fund

Benjamin A. Rogge

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“I warn you," the boy went on. "I am a magician of great power. I control many terrifying entities. This being you see before you" - here I rolled my shoulders back and puffed my chest up menacingly - "is but the meanest and least impressive of my slaves." (Here I slumped my shoulders and stuck my stomach out.)”
“People who have only good experiences aren't very interesting. They may be content, and happy after a fashion, but they aren't very deep. It may seem a misfortune now, and it makes things difficult, but well--it's easy to feel all the happy, simple stuff. Not that happiness is necessarily simple. But I don't think you're going to have a life like that, and I think you'll be the better for it. The difficult thing is to not be overwhelmed by the bad patches. You must not let them defeat you. You must see them as a gift--a cruel gift, but a gift nonetheless.”
“Everyone has a chance to learn, improve, and build up their skills.”
“In my mind, continuity means the best writer at a company is held hostage by the worst.”
“Eight full lives,â€ I whispered against his jaw, my voice breaking. â€œEight full lives and I never found anyone I would stay on a planet for, anyone I would follow when they left. I never found a partner. Why now? Why you? You're not of my species. How can you be my partner?â€ â€œIt's a strange universe,â€ he murmured. â€œIt's not fair,â€ I complained, echoing Sunny's words. It wasn't fair. How could I find this, find loveâ€“now, in this eleventh hourâ€“and have to leave it? Was it fair that my soul and body couldn't reconcile? Was it fair that I had to love Melanie, too?”
“Funny is only something that others know about you - you can't be funny by yourself.”
“Things are simple when you're going to die.”
“As artists, we like night more than day sometimes.”

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