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• No discipline is ever requisite to force attendance upon lectures which are really worth the attending.
  -- Adam Smith (1723-1790), "The Wealth of Natio...
• The lesson these days is the vulgarity of wealth. We know that wealth will vote for the same thing which the worst and meanest of the people vote for.
  Wealth will vote for rum, will vote for tyranny, will vote for slavery, wiil vote against the ballot, will vote against international copyright, will vote against schools, colleges or any high direction of public money....
• Ever wonder why the SAME PEOPLE make up ALL the conspiracy theories?
• Polite conversation is seldom either.
• A commune is where people join together to share their lack of wealth. -- R. Stallma
• It is not by the importation of gold and silver, that the discovery of America has enriched Europe.
  ...The commodities of Europe were almost all new to America, and many of those of America were new to Europe....
• The man scarce lives who is not more credulous than he ought to be.
  .. The natural disposition is always to believe. It is acquired wisdom and experience only that teach incredulity, and they very seldom teach it enough....
• A commune is where people join together to share their lack of wealth. -- Richard M. Stallma