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The blood of my motherland waters a magic plant that cures all ills. That plant is art, and sometimes art needs corruption as a kind of fertilizer


Alfred de Musset

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ALFRED HITCHCOCK The only normal people are the ones you don't know very well.
ALFRED ADLER One can state, without exaggeration, that the observation of and the search for similarities and dif...
ALFRED NOBEL Capital is that part of wealth which is devoted to obtaining further wealth.
ALFRED MARSHALL In the absence of any short term in common use to represent all desirable things, or things that sat...
ALFRED MARSHALL In every age poets and social reformers have tried to stimulate the people of their own time to a no...
ALFRED MARSHALL The price of every thing rises and falls from time to time and place to place; and with every such c...
ALFRED MARSHALL Again, most of the chief distinctions marked by economic terms are differences not of kind but of de...
ALFRED MARSHALL It is common to distinguish necessaries, comforts, and luxuries; the first class including all thing...
ALFRED MARSHALL Producer's Surplus is a convenient name for the genus of which the rent of land is the leading s...
ALFRED MARSHALL And very often the influence exerted on a person's character by the amount of his income is hard...
ALFRED MARSHALL But if inventions have increased man's power over nature very much, then the real value of money...
ALFRED MARSHALL Civilized countries generally adopt gold or silver or both as money.
ALFRED MARSHALL Individual and national rights to wealth rest on the basis of civil and international law, or at lea...
ALFRED MARSHALL The hope that poverty and ignorance may gradually be extinguished, derives indeed much support from ...
ALFRED MARSHALL All wealth consists of desirable things; that is, things which satisfy human wants directly or indir...
ALFRED MARSHALL