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We always plan too much

We always plan too much and always think too little.
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Economic progress, in capitalist society,

Economic progress, in capitalist society, means turmoil.
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The question that is so

The question that is so clearly in many potential parents minds: Why should we stunt our ambitions and impoverish our lives in order to be insulted and looked down upon in our old age?
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For the duration of its

For the duration of its collective life, or the time during which its identity may be assumed, each class resembles a hotel or an omnibus, always full, but always of different people.
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Entrepreneurial profit is the expression

Entrepreneurial profit is the expression of the value of what the entrepreneur contributes to production.
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It is not true that

It is not true that democracy will always safeguard freedom of conscience better than autocracy. Witness the most famous of all trials. Pilate was, from the standpoint of the Jews, certainly the representative of autocracy. Yet he tried to protect freedom. And he yielded to a democracy.
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Bureaucracy is not an obstacle

Bureaucracy is not an obstacle to democracy but an inevitable complement to it.
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Democracy is a political method,

Democracy is a political method, that is to say, a certain type of institutional arrangement for arriving at political -- legislative and administrative -- decisions and hence incapable of being an end in itself.
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Capitalism inevitably and by virtue

Capitalism inevitably and by virtue of the very logic of its civilization creates, educates and subsidizes a vested interest in social unrest.
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The evolution of the capitalist

The evolution of the capitalist style of life could be easily -- and perhaps most tellingly -- described in terms of the genesis of the modern Lounge Suit.
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