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• By pouring money and goods into devastated regions, foreign aid workers sometimes compound the disruption and debauch the survivors.

  James Buchan

  Survivor, Pouring, Sometimes

  "War Games: The Story of Aid and War in Modern Times by Linda Polman". www.theguardian.com. May 7, 2010.

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• The E.U. imports more agricultural goods from developing countries around the world than does the U.S., Canada and Japan, combined.

  John Bruton

  Country, Japan, Agriculture

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• A gold standard doesn't imply stability in the prices of the goods and services that people buy every day, it implies a stability in the price of gold itself.

  Ben Bernanke

  People, Gold, Standards

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• When goods do not cross borders, soldiers will.

  Frederic Bastiat

  Soldier, Liberty, Borders

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• I believe that the whole idea of the consumer society is tottering. We've kept ourselves going by producing more and more goods, most of which people don't need. I'm anti-consumerism; I own four pairs of black Levis and that's it.

  Paul Auster

  Believe, Ideas, People

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• Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to be terminated when one or both parties run out of goods.

  W. H. Auden

  Love, Relationship, Running

  Dyer's Hand (1963) "Hic et Ille"

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• Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.

  Aristotle

  Inspirational, Friendship, Philosophical

  Aristotle (2013). “The Essential Aristotle”, p.603, Simon and Schuster

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• Speculation is only a word covering the making of money out of the manipulation of prices, instead of supplying goods and services.

  Henry Ford

  Money, Covering, Manipulation

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• The American consumer is also the American worker, and if we don't do something to protect our manufacturing base here at home, it is going to be hard to buy any retail goods.

  Lindsey Graham

  Home, Retail, Reconstruction

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• A store's best advertisement is the service its goods render, for upon such service rest the future, the good-will, of an organization.

  James Cash Penney

  Organization, Economy, Stores

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• Young feminists have been sold a bill of goods about American feminism. The enormous changes in women over the past 40 years are constantly and falsely attributed to the organized women's movement of the late 1960s and '70s.

  Camille Paglia

  Past, Years, Feminist

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• We didn't become the most prosperous country in the world just by rewarding greed and recklessness. We didn't come this far by letting the special interests run wild. We didn't do it just by gambling and chasing paper profits on Wall Street. We built this country by making things, by producing goods we could sell.

  Barack Obama

  Inspirational, Running, Country

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• Occasionally we have to interpret an international treaty - one, perhaps, affecting airlines and liability for injury to passengers or damage to goods. Then, of course, we have to look to the precedents of other member nations in resolving issues.

  Sandra Day O'Connor

  Issues, Looks, Damage

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• Anybody who can afford a box of business cards can afford a Web site. Any company with an 800 number can move its services to the Web for peanuts by comparison. The extreme case of corporate promotion is to strip away all other aspects of your business and sell goods or services via the Net alone, as amazon.com has done with books.

  Nathan Myhrvold

  Book, Moving, Numbers

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• Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of soul, impossible.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Attitude, Soul, Poverty

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• War can really cause no economic boom, at least not directly, since an increase in wealth never does result from destruction of goods.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Money, War, Doe

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• Local economies are suffering as people spend more on fuel and less on consumer goods and travel.

  Dan Lipinski

  Travel, People, Suffering

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• Advertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way of selling goods, particularly if the goods are worthless.

  Sinclair Lewis

  Funny, Money, Humor

  "Gideon Planish". Book by Sinclair Lewis, 1943.

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• And just remember, every dollar we spend on outsourcing is spent on U.S. goods or invested back in the U.S. market. That's accounting.

  Arthur Laffer

  Dollars, Remember, Outsourcing

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• The decadent international but individualistic capitalism in the hands of which we found ourselves after the war is not a success. It 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

  Beautiful, War, Intelligent

  John Maynard Keynes (1982). “Activities 1931-1939: world crises and policies in Britain and America”

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• There are goods so opposed that we cannot seize both, but, by too much prudence, may pass between them at too great a distance to reach either.

  Samuel Johnson

  Distance, May, Too Much

  Samuel Johnson (1977). “Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.119, Univ of California Press

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• This avidity alone, of acquiring goods and possessions for ourselves and our nearest friends, is insatiable, perpetual, universal, and directly destructive of society.

  David Hume

  Possession, Insatiable, Universal

  David Hume, Geoffrey Sayre-McCord “Moral Philosophy”, Hackett Publishing

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• In a finite world this means that the per capita share of the world's goods must steadily decrease.

  Garrett Hardin

  Mean, Environmental, World

  Garrett James Hardin (1995). “The Immigration Dilemma: Avoiding the Tragedy of the Commons”, F A I R-Federation for American Immigration Reform

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• Life yields only to the conqueror. Never accept what can be gained by giving in. You will be living off stolen goods, and your muscles will atrophy.

  Dag Hammarskjold

  Yield, Giving, Accepting

  "Markings". Book by Dag Hammarskjöld, 1963.

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• An anxious unrest, a fierce craving desire for gain has taken possession of the commercial world, and in instances no longer rare the most precious and permanent goods of human life have been madly sacrificed in the interests of momentary enrichment.

  Felix Adler

  Taken, Desire, Unrest

  "Patricians, Professors, and Public Schools: The Origins of Modern Educational Thought in America". Book by Allan Stanley Horlick, 1994.

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