"The characteristic mark of economic history under capitalism is unceasing economic progress, a steady increase in the quantity of capital goods available, and a continuous trend toward an improvement in the general standard of living."

-- Ludwig von Mises

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“Leadership is about creating new realities.”
“Our spirits have their own private way of understanding each other, of becoming intimate, while our external persons are still trapped in the commerce of ordinary words, in the slavery of social rules. Souls have their own needs and their own ambitions, which the body ignores when it sees that it's impossible to satisfy them or achieve them.”

Source : Luigi Pirandello (1987). “The late Mattia Pascal”, Eridanos Library
“It is rare for people to say they want to be held accountable, but in reality, everyone wants everyone else to be held accountable.”
“Are you prepared for the first wound?”
“I keep warning and warning, and nobody seems willing to listen. One of these days someone is going to wake up to the fact that I'm serious when I say never to attack my sister without looking over your shoulder for me. (Rhoan)”

Source : Keri Arthur (2007). “Dangerous Games: A Riley Jenson Guardian Novel”, p.347, Dell
“There'll be moments when I'm out in the prison yard, chatting with the cast and the crew, getting ready to shoot a scene. And then I'll remember if I were actually an inmate, I'd only be out there an hour. The other 23 hours of the day, I'd be in my cell. It's kind of a downer.”
“I have before me a newspaper slip on which a writer expresses the opinion that no one should be allowed to possess more than one million dollars' worth of property.”
“The true destiny of America is religious, not political: it is spiritual, not physical.”

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