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There is no art which one government sooner learns from another than that of draining money from the pockets of the people.

posted Jan 9, 2012 9:23 AM by Fernando Berzal

-- Adam Smith, "An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations" (1776)

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

posted Sep 27, 2011 5:38 AM by Fernando Berzal   [ updated Sep 27, 2011 5:49 AM ]

 -- George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman (1903), "Maxims for Revolutionists"

I never guess. It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.

posted Sep 15, 2011 3:05 PM by Fernando Berzal   [ updated Oct 1, 2011 9:50 AM ]

-- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1892), "A Scandal in Bohemia"

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