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"Ubi non accusator, ibi non judex."

(Where there is no police, there is no speed limit.)
-- Roman Law, trans. Petr Beckmann (1971)

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$100 invested at 7% interest for 100 years will become $100,000, at
which time it will be worth absolutely nothing.
-- Lazarus Long, "Time Enough for Love"

@mitchconner this is boomer economics. Almost every paragraph is stupid. For example: you don't create a deflation by lowering interest rates and refinancing t bills at those lower rates. If anything you will eventually create conditions for hyperinflation

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What is the robbing of a bank compared to the founding of a bank?
-- Bertold Brecht

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I could dance with you till the cows come home. On second thought, I'd rather
dance with the cows till you come home.
-- Groucho Marx

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This is no time to make new enemies.
-- Voltaire, replying a priest who advised him on his
death bed to renounce the devil.

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Television -- the longest amateur night in history.
-- Robert Carson

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If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom;
and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money it values more, it
will lose that, too.
-- W. Somerset Maugham

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@mitchconner ive heard that her work was ghostwritten forgot who

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Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade
themselves that they have a better idea.
-- John Ciardi

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@mitchconner look up the og mary poppins. Masterclass on sound money and people fucking with it

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@mitchconner much more imp. to check % of gdp in terms of import.

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