He who buys what he does not want ends in wanting what he cannot buy. - Alec-Tweedie

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The rational man finds that his share of the cost of the wastes he discharges into the commons is less than the cost of purifying his wastes before releasing them.

Alec-Tweedie

He who buys what he does not want ends in wanting what he cannot buy.

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We all try to be alike in our youth, and individual in our middle age. . . although we sometimes mistake eccentricity for individuality.

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Marriage with love is entering heaven with one's eyes shut, but marriage without love is entering hell with them open.

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The most powerful book in the world at the beginning of the twentieth century is the check-book.

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Civilisation makes us all as alike as peas in a pod, and it is the very uncouth - uncivilised, if you will - element which individualises nations.

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Sunshine is more health-giving than pills and potions: and travel in foreign lands is a mental tonic, which feeds the mind even if it empties the pocket.

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I gazed at every mirror on the planet, not one gave back my reflection.

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Christian socialism”). This is a difficult concept for modern liberals to grasp because they are used to thinking of the progressives as the people who cleaned up the food supply, pushed through the eight hour workday, and ended child labor. But liberals often forget that the progressives were imperialists, at home and abroad. They were the authors of Prohibition, the Palmer Raids, eugenics, loyalty oaths, and, in its modern incarnation, what many call “state capitalism.

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