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• If Satan has blinded and bound men and women, how can we ever see souls saved? This is where you and I enter the picture. Spoiling the goods of the strong man has to do with liberating those whom Satan has blinded and is keeping bound. . . . This is where prayer comes in.

  Theodore Epp

  Strong, Prayer, Men

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• One of the appeals of markets, as a public philosophy, is they seem to spare us the need to engage in public arguments about the meaning of goods. So markets seem to enable us to be non-judgmental about values. But I think that's a mistake.

  Michael Sandel

  Philosophy, Mistake, Thinking

  "Michael Sandel: 'We need to reason about how to value our bodies, human dignity, teaching and learning'". Interview with Decca Aitkenhead, www.theguardian.com. May 27, 2012.

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• Money and goods are certainly the best of references.

  Charles Dickens

  Charles Dickens (1868). “Charles Dickens's works. Charles Dickens ed. [18 vols. of a 21 vol. set. Wanting A child's history of England; Christmas stories; The mystery of Edwin Drood].”, p.25

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• There are the goods; if you want them, you can have them. If you do not want them, they would almost rather that you did not come and talk about them.

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Want, Ifs

  Jerome K. Jerome, Geoffrey Harvey (2008). “Three Men in a Boat and Three Men on the Bummel”, p.321, Oxford University Press

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• [Freedom] is the greatest of political goods. I do not say freedom is the greatest of all goods: the best things come from within they are such things as creative art, and love, and thought. Such things can be helped or hindered by political conditions, but not actually produced by them; and freedom is, both in itself and in its relation to these other goods the best thing that political and economic conditions can secure.

  Bertrand Russell

  Art, Creative, Political

  Bertrand Russell (2015). “Proposed Roads to Freedom”, p.85, Booklassic

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• We are sacrificing ourselves for our ready-made goods; we are consumers and live in such a way that the means may consume the end.

  Karl Kraus

  Mean, Sacrifice, May

  "In These Great Times". Book by Karl Kraus, translated by Harry Zohn, p. 74, 1976.

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• Our Savior was crucified for our sakes that by His death He might give us life and train and attract us all to endurance. To Him I press on, and to the Father and to the Holy Spirit. I strive to be found true, judging myself unworthy of this world's goods; and yet not I because of the world, but the world because of me. Think of all these things in your heart; follow them with zeal; fight, as you have been commanded, for the truth to the death: For Christ was made 'obedient' even 'to death'

  Saint Basil

  Christian, Father, Heart

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• Don't tell people how good you make the goods; tell the how good your goods make them.

  Leo Burnett

  People

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• We've lost an edge that we used to have in scientific innovation applications to goods to be sold. In many ways, that is also changing in the electronic field. Almost all of the materials that we use now are of advanced technology, I have an iPad and also an iPod, both of which are made in China. Although we have designed them here with Apple, for instance, they are manufactured overseas.

  Jimmy Carter

  Technology, Ipads, Apples

  "Big Think Interview With Jimmy Carter". Interview with Andrea Useem, bigthink.com. November 30, 2010.

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• Material goods consist of useful material things, and of all rights to hold, or use, or derive benefits from material things, or to receive them at a future time.

  Alfred Marshall

  Rights, Benefits, Use

  Alfred Marshall (2010). “Principles of Economics”, p.54, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Historically, large-scale global trade has served two functions: 1) the exchange of goods between willing sellers and buyers described in Econ 101 textbooks; 2) as a tool of state aggrandizement, in which the private parties are stand-ins for governmental interests.

  Charles C. Mann

  Party, Two, Textbooks

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• Consumer goods become enlightenment, relationships, anything! It doesn't really matter because infinity exists in everything. "Greater than the greatest, smaller than the smallest, the self dwells in the hearts of all," that is the Upanishads.

  Frederick Lenz

  Heart, Self, Enlightenment

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• Unemployment is due to the large import of goods from Britain and other countries. The Government haven't used the powers which they have for the benefit of the country.

  Eamon de Valera

  Country, Government, Unemployment

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• Globally, as the nation-state becomes increasingly less meaningful - a provider of positive goods and more and more just an army and some domestic enforcement - people are withdrawing to shape and support more localised forms of organisation and power. To the extent that it's part of that civilised and localising world, the same is true of the U.S.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Meaningful, Army, People

  "The growth of local power is a bright spot in seven bleak years of Bush" by Rebecca Solnit, www.theguardian.com. December 28, 2007.

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• The first rule of economics is that there is an infinite number of desires chasing a finite number of goods, services and resources. The first rule of politics is to ignore the first rule of economics.

  Thomas Sowell

  Finite Number, Numbers, Desire

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• The network of enlightenment is a very wide network. It's not relegated to a simple type of being. It's not the network of the goody-goods.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Simple, Humanity

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• My background is that I've spent a lot of time marketing entertainment. One of the old saws in package goods is you can take something that is popular and you can make it more popular. But if you take something less popular, you can't automatically market it into the same success as something that's already popular.

  Fred Seibert

  Marketing, Saws, Entertainment

  "Q&A with Hanna-Barbera president Fred Seibert". Interview with Phil Gallo and Richard Setlowe, variety.com. March 23, 1994.

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• When goods are exchanged between countries, they must be paid for by commodities or gold. They cannot be paid for by the notes, certificates, and checks of the purchaser's country, since these are of value only in the country of issue.

  Carroll Quigley

  Country, Issues, Gold

  Carroll Quigley (1966). “Tragedy and Hope: A History of the World in Our Time”, New York : Macmillan [c1966]

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• Don't be deceived when our Revolution has been finally stamped out and they tell you things are better now Even if there's no poverty to be seen because the poverty's been hidden even if you ever got more wages and could afford to buy more of these new and useless goods which these new industries foist on you and even if it seems to you that you never had so much that is only the slogan of those who still have much more than you

  Peter Weiss

  Wages, Useless, Poverty

  Peter Weiss (1998). “Marat/Sade ; The Investigation ; and The Shadow of the Body of the Coachman”, p.81, A&C Black

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• My title is intended to suggest that the community of scientists is organized in a way which resembles certain features of a body politic and works according to economic principles similar to those by which the production of material goods is regulated.

  Michael Polanyi

  Community, Body, Way

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• Moral decay first hampers and then strangles honest government, regular commerce, and even the ability to take genuine pleasure in the goods of this world. Compulsion is applied from above as self-discipline relaxes below, and the last liberties expire under the weight of a unitary state.... Since religion has lost its empire over the souls of men, the most prominent boundary that divided good from evil is overthrown; kings and nations are guided by chance and none can say where are the natural limits of despotism and the bound of license.

  Russell Kirk

  Kings, Men, Self

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• The teacher is commodified, the school is a shop, the subjects are consumer goods. To read, to think, to reflect, isn't a question of want, it's a question of need.

  Daniel Pennac

  Teacher, School, Thinking

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• We've become increasingly addicted to consumption of goods that we don't produce ourselves, and a lot of the manufacturing has gone overseas.

  Jimmy Carter

  Gone, Produce, Consumption

  Interview with Andrea Useem, bigthink.com. November 30, 2010.

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• It is solely bigness in business which makes it possible to supply the masses with all those products the present-day American common man does not want to do without. Luxury goods for the few can be produced in small shops. Luxury goods for the many require big business.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Men, Luxury, Doe

  Ludwig von Mises (2016). “An Interpretation of Social and Economic Evolution: The Economist”, p.105, VM eBooks

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• As farmers or owners, the poor peasants possess a piece of land. The excellent means of transport enables them often to sell their goods. At the very worst they can mostly provide their own food.

  Herman Gorter

  Mean, Land, Pieces

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