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If we must play the theological game, let us never forget that it is a game.
Religion, it seems to me, can survive only as a consciously accepted system of make believe....
Japan lowers prices and wins a long-term gain. America raises prices and wins short-term gains.
Who loses? The American worker. -- Rev....
Nothing is more intolerable than a wealthy woman. -- Juvenal (60-140 CE)
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? (Who will watch the watchers?
) -- Juvenal (60-140 CE)...
Morte magis metuenda benectus. (Old age is more to be feared than death.
) -- Juvenal (60-140 CE)...
Revenge is always the delight of a little weak and petty mind
of which you may straightway draw proof from this, that no one so rejoices in revenge as a woman....
Crescit amor nummi quantum ipsa pecunia cresit. (The love of money grows as the money itself grows.
) -- Juvenal (60-140 CE)...
We are sinful not merely because we have eaten of the Tree of Knowledge, but also because we have not yet eaten of the Tree of Life.
-- Franz Kafka (1883-1924)...
When the accumulation of wealth is no longer of high social importance, there will be great changes in the code of morals.
We shall be able to rid our- selves of many of the pseudo-moral principle...
Capitalism...is not intelligent, it is not beautiful, it is not just, it is not virtuous--and it doesn't deliver the goods.
-- John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946) quoted in the N.Y. Times, 27 April 1...

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