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“Certainly, no revolution that has ever taken place in society can be compared to that which has been produced by the words of Jesus Christ.”

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Book:Lectures on the Evidences of Christianity

Source: Lectures on the Evidences of Christianity

“The path the capitalist revolution will take faces in exactly the opposite direction from that taken by the communist revolution. It seeks to diffuse the private ownership of capital instead of abolishing it entirely. It seeks to make all men capitalists instead of preventing anyone from being a capitalist by making the State the only capitalist.”

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Author:Louis O. Kelso

“America was founded by intellectuals, a rare occurrence in the history of modern nations We might even say that America was founded by intellectuals, from which it has taken us two centuries and a communications revolution to recover.”

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Book:Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business

Source: Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business

“We are so placid that the smallest tremor of objection is taken as a full-scale revolution.”

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Book:Art & ardor: essays

Source: Art & ardor: essays

“[T]he people seem to have deposited the monarchical and taken up the republican government with as much ease as would have attended their throwing off an old and putting on a new suit of clothes.”

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Book:1777-18 June, 1779, including the Revisal of the laws, 1776-1786

Source: 1777-18 June, 1779, including the Revisal of the laws, 1776-1786

“We are so placid that the smallest tremor of objection to anything at all is taken as a full-scale revolution. Should any soul speak up in favor of the obvious, it is taken as a symptom of the influence of the left, the right, the pink, the black, the dangerous. An idea for its own sake - especially an obvious idea - has no respectability.”

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Book:Art & ardor: essays

Source: Art & ardor: essays

“Why are oil prices so low? First, energy consumption growth rates in developing markets have decreased. This is particularly noticeable in China. Second, new technologies are being developed and the shale gas revolution in the USA has taken place”

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Author:Kenneth Rogoff