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I love building spaces: architecture, furniture, all of it, probably more than fashion. The development procedure is more tactile. It's about space and form and it's something you can share with other people.

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I see nothing in the present situation that is either menacing or warrants pessimism.

Depression, Menacing, Nothing, Pessimism, Present, Situation
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Liquidate labor, liquidate stocks, liquidate farmers, liquidate real estate. It will purge the rottenness out of the system. High costs of living and high living will come down. People will work harder, live a more moral life. Values will be adjusted, and enterprising people will pick up from less competent people.

Farmers, Hard Work, Labor, Live Life, Real, Rottenness

There is no cause to worry. The high tide of prosperity will continue.

Cause, Depression, Prosperity, Tides, Worry

Prosperity of the middling and lower orders depends upon the fortunes and light taxes of the rich.

Depends, Light, Middling, Order, Prosperity, Taxes

The history of taxation shows that taxes which are inherently excessive are not paid. The high rates inevitably put pressure upon the taxpayer to withdraw his capital from productive business and invest it in tax-exempt securities or to find other lawful methods of avoiding the realization of taxable income. The result is that the sources of taxation are drying up; wealth is failing to carry its share of the tax burden; and capital is being diverted into channels which yield neither revenue to the Government nor profit to the people.

Government, People, Pressure, Rates, Taxes, Yield

Any man of energy and initiative can get what he wants out of life. But when initiative is crippled by legislation or by a tax system which denies him the right to receive a reasonable share of his earnings, then he will no longer exert himself and the country will be deprived of the energy on which its continued greatness depends.

Country, Denies, Deprived, Energy, Greatness, Men
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