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“I'm paying taxes and have a retirement account on a prostitute's salary?" Dallin just had to ask, because this was a Twilight Zone level of strange, and that was even taking into account that he'd grown fairly used to William's eccentricities.”

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Book:Two Steps Back
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“Once you understand the process of corporate globalization, you have to see that what happened in Argentina, the devastation of Argentina by the IMF, is part of the same machine that is destroying Iraq. Both are efforts to break open and to control markets. And so Argentina is destroyed by the chequebook, and Iraq is destroyed by the cruise missile. If the chequebook won't work, the cruise missile will. Hell hath no fury like a market scorned.”

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