Things don't turn up in this world until somebody turns them up.
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I love to deal with doctrines and events. The contests of men about men I greatly dislike.
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Most human organizations that fall short of their goals do so not because of stupidity or faulty doctrines, but because of internal decay and rigidification. They grow stiff in the joints. They get in a rut. They go to seed.
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Whoever controls the volume of money in any country is absolute master of all industry and commerce.
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Ideas control the world.
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