A mind attacked and conquered is guided easily away from the paths of its own soul. - Ayi Kwei Armah

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I do not think it is an exaggeration to say history is largely a history of inflation, usually inflations engineered by governments for the gain of governments.

Ayi Kwei Armah

A mind attacked and conquered is guided easily away from the paths of its own soul.

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The present is where we get lost - if we forget our past and have no vision of the future

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True, I used to see a lot of hope. I saw men tear down the veils behind which the truth had been hidden. But then the same men, when they have power in their hands at last, began to find the veils useful. They made many more. Life has not changed. Only some people have been growing, becoming different, that is all. After a youth spent fighting the white man, why should not the president discover as he grows older that his real desire has been to be like the white governor himself, to live above all the blackness in the big old slave castle?

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Alone, i am nothing. i have nothing. we have power. but we will never know it,we will never see it work. unless we come together to make it work.

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When you can see the end of things even in their beginnings, there's no more hope, unless you want to pretend, or forget, or get drunk or something.

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Where I come from revolution is the only creation, and the revolutionary the only artist.

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Friedrich August von Hayek

I do not think it is an exaggeration to say history is largely a history of inflation, usually inflations engineered by governments for the gain of governments.

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Ernest Hemingway

The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists.

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Robert A. Heinlein

Long human words (the longer the better) were easy, unmistakable, and rarely changed their meanings. . . but short words were slippery, unpredictable, changing their meanings without any pattern.

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Jane Austen

I cannot speak well enough to be unintelligible.

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John F. Kerry

I think as we celebrate the 70th anniversary of the UN, it's a good moment to rekindle our efforts to make multilateralism work yet again. And I'm proud to say that in the Iran agreement I think we did show that it can work.

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