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Quote by Steve Jobs about reflecting on daily life and making changes when necessaryCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"For the last 33 years, I've looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: if today was the last day of my life, would I want to do what I'm going to do today? And whenever the answer was „no“ for too many days, I knew I had to change something." Steve Jobs
Quote by Steve Jobs about reflecting on daily life and making changes when necessaryCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"For the last 33 years, I've looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: if today was the last day of my life, would I want to do what I'm going to do today? And whenever the answer was „no“ for too many days, I knew I had to change something." Steve Jobs
Milton Friedman quote about competition, private enterprise, and economic freedomCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"The economic miracle that has been the United States was not produced by socialized enterprises, by government-unon-industry cartels or by centralized economic planning. It was produced by private enterprises in a profit-and-loss system. And losses were at least as important in weeding out failures, as profits in fostering successes. Let government succor failures, and we shall be headed for stagnation and decline." Milton Friedman
Quote image featuring Henri-Louis Bergson on the future, hope, and imaginationCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"The idea of the future, pregnant with an infinity of possibilities, is thus more fruitful than the future itself, and this is why we find more charm in hope than in possession, in dreams than in reality." Henri-Louis Bergson
Daniel J. Boorstin quote about America, dreams, and the threat of unrealityCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"America has been a land of dreams. A land where the aspirations of people from countries cluttered with rich, cumbersome, aristocratic, ideological pasts can reach for what once seemed unattainable. Here they have tried to make dreams come true. Yet now... we are threatened by a new and particularly American menace. It is not the menace of class war, of ideology, of poverty, of disease, of illiteracy, or demagoguery, or of tyranny, though these now plague most of the world. It is the menace of unreality." Daniel J. Boorstin
Oswald Spengler quote about cultural decline, Classicism, Romanticism, and the end of civilizationCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"At last, in the gray dawn of Civilization the fire in the Soul dies down. The dwindling powers rise to one more, half-successful, effort of creation, and produce the Classicism that is common to all dying Cultures. The soul thinks once again, and in Romanticism looks back piteously to its childhood; then finally, weary, reluctant, cold, it loses its desire to be, and, as in Imperial Rome, wishes itself out of the overlong daylight and back in the darkness of protomysticism in the womb of the mother in the grave." Oswald Spengler
Quote image by Neil Postman about learner engagement and the value of learningCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"There is no way to help a learner to be disciplined, active, and thoroughly engaged unless he perceives a problem to be a problem or whatever is to-be-learned as worth learning, and unless he plays an active role in determining the process of solution." Neil Postman
Hannah Arendt quote about education, responsibility, children, and renewing the worldCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"Education is the point at which we decide whether we love the world enough to assume responsibility for it, and by the same token save it from that ruin which except for renewal, except for the coming of the new and the young, would be inevitable. And education, too, is where we decide whether we love our children enough not to expel them from our world and leave them to their own devices, nor to strike from their hands their chance of undertaking something new, something unforeseen by us, but to prepare them in advance for the task of renewing a common world." Hannah Arendt
Klaus Kinski quote about money buying freedomCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"I never said money is freedom! I said money buys freedom. BUYS! What does that mean, money is freedom? This is ridiculous: Money is freedom. It means nothing. What do you think, that a dollar in a savings account is freedom? Maybe you have understood nothing I have said. You are trying to make me sound like an American average citizen." Klaus Kinski
Quote by Dave Smith about human liberties, pharmaceutical companies, and fascismCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"If you believe that the most basic human liberties ought to be contingent on taking a product from a giant pharmaceutical company then you are not liberal or left wing. You’re not a conservative or patriotic. There is only one word to describe you and that is Fascist." Dave Smith
David Icke quote about freedom from dogma and independent thinkingCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"There are two things you need if you are to uncover and communicate what is really happening in the world. One is to free of any dogmatic belief system. The second is not to give a damn what people think and say about you, or, at least, not to let that influence your decisions." David Icke
Harry Browne quote about government, poverty, and moralityCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"Conservatives say the government can't end poverty by force, but they believe it can use force to make people moral. Liberals say government can't make people be moral, but they believe it can end poverty. Neither group attempts to explain why government is so clumsy and destructive in one area but a paragon of efficiency and benevolence in the other." Harry Browne
Ivan Illich quote about friendship and political lifeCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"I believe that if something like a political life is to remain for us in this world of technology, then it begins with friendship. Therefore my task is to cultivate disciplined, self-denying, careful, tasteful friendships." Ivan Illich
Murray Rothbard quote about gold as the best moneyCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"It is particularly odd that economists who profess to be champions of a free-market economy, should go to such twists and turns to avoid facing the plain fact: that gold, that scarce and valuable market-produced metal, has always been, and will continue to be, by far the best money for human society." Murray Rothbard
Murray Rothbard quote about money, scarcity, and the effects of increasing the money supplyCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"Money is different from all other commodities: other things being equal, more shoes, or more discoveries of oil or copper benefit society, since they help alleviate natural scarcity. But once a commodity is established as a money on the market, no more money at all is needed. Since the only use of money is for exchange and reckoning, more dollars or pounds or marks in circulation cannot confer a social benefit: they will simply dilute the exchange value of every existing dollar or pound or mark." Murray Rothbard
Quote by George Bernard Shaw about trusting gold over governmentCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"You have to choose between trusting to the natural stability of gold and the natural stability of the honesty and intelligence of the members of the government. And, with due respect to these gentlemen, I advise you, as long as the capitalist system lasts, to vote for gold." George Bernhard Shaw
Quote by Ronald Reagan about government debt, inflation, and taxesCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"When a business or an individual spends more than it makes, it goes bankrupt. When government does it, it sends you the bill. And when government does it for 40 years, the bill comes in two ways: higher taxes and inflation. Make no mistake about it, inflation is a tax and not by accident." Ronald Reagan
Quote by James Abram Garfield about control of money and its impact on industry and commerceCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"Whoever controls the volume of money in our country is absolute master of all industry and commerce...when you realize that the entire system is very easily controlled, one way or another, by a few powerful men at the top, you will not have to be told how periods of inflation and depression originate." James Abram Garfield
Quote by Henry Hazlitt about inflation and its unavoidable economic consequencesCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"If a government resorts to inflation, that is, creates money in order to cover its budget deficits or expands credit in order to stimulate business, then no power on earth, no gimmick, device, trick or even indexation can prevent its economic consequences." Henry Hazlitt
Quote by Curtis Dall revealing the hidden influences behind FDR's policies and the One World Government controlCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"For a long time I felt that FDR had developed many thoughts and ideas that were his own to benefit this country, the United States. But, he didn't. Most of his thoughts, his political ammunition, as it were, were carefully manufactured for him in advanced by the Council on Foreign Relations-One World Money group. Brilliantly, with great gusto, like a fine piece of artillery, he exploded that prepared "ammunition" in the middle of an unsuspecting target, the American people, and thus paid off and returned his internationalist political support. The UN is but a long-range, international banking apparatus clearly set up for financial and economic profit by a small group of powerful One-World revolutionaries, hungry for profit and power. The depression was the calculated 'shearing' of the public by the World Money powers, triggered by the planned sudden shortage of supply of call money in the New York money market....The One World Government leaders and their ever close bankers have now acquired full control of the money and credit machinery of the U.S. via the creation of the privately owned Federal Reserve Bank." Curtis Dall