"It is easy at any moment to resign the possession of a great fortune; to acquire it is difficult and arduous"

-- Livy

#Wealth Quotes #Moments Quotes #Easy Quotes

“In the long run, doing work that's important leads to more happiness than doing work that's merely profitable.”
“So what are the effects of increasing minimum wages? Any Econ 101 student can tell you the answer: The higher wage reduces the quantity of labor demanded, and hence leads to unemployment.”

Source : "Krugman Contra Krugman on the Minimum Wage?" by Benjamin Powell, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 12, 2013.
“My contact with [Cato] was strange. They're ideologues, like Trotskyites. All questions must be seen and solved within the true faith of libertarianism, the idea of minimal government. And like Trotskyites, the guys from Cato can talk you to death.”
“be careful of monsters with teeth”
“Virtue is not hereditary.”
“I did a film called 'Fort McCoy,' based on a true story of one of the few internment camps during WWII that was actually in the United States.”
“Music is edifying, for from time to time it sets the soul in operation.”
“These people walk by a widow deformed by leprosy...walk by children dressed in rags living in the street, and they think, 'Business as usual.' But if they perceive a slight against God, it is a different story. Their faces go red, their chests heave mightily, they sputter angry words. The degree of their indignation is astonishing. Their resolve is frightening.”

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