John Cowper Powys – ThisIsCommonSense.org

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Modern fashions of thinking have done a deadly hurt to the happiness of our race by their insistence upon the helplessness of the mind and the will.

‪John Cowper Powys, A Philosophy of Solitude (1933)‬, p. 122

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Thought of the Day

Whereas the governments of some low-income countries are improving their economics policies, in the United States the proliferation of political movements that view economics with disdain, along with apparent general public support for government market interventions, are in considerable measure contributing to the decline in the performance of the U.S. economy.
Theodore W. Schultz, Investing in People: The Economics of Population Quality (1981), p. 143-4.

— Theodore W. Schultz

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