In all life one should comfort the afflicted but verily also one should afflict the comfortable and especially when they are comfortably contentedly even happily wrong.

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Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.

Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.

Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so almost

Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof.

The process by which banks create money is so simple that the mind is repelled.

The process by which banks create money is so simple that the mind is repelled.

War remains the decisive human failure.

War remains the decisive human failure.

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