Madsen Pirie quotes
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“There are no causes of poverty. To ask what causes poverty is like asking what causes coldit is the absence of energy. Similarly poverty is the absence of wealth. We should ask, ‘what are the causes of wealth?’”
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“People often find it easier to refute a fake extreme opponent than a more cautious real one, so they knock down the straw man instead. It is actually worth the trouble to identify the invalid forms of argument, and to learn their names. Not only can you then avoid them yourself; you can also identify them in opponents. If you call your opponent's errors by their Latin names, you can make it look as though he or she is suffering from a rare tropical disease.”
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“There are no causes of poverty. It is the rest state, that which happens when you don't do anything. If you want to experience poverty, just do nothing, and it will come…. We should ask what are the causes of wealth and try to recreate and reproduce them.”
-- Madsen Pirie
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Source : Abiola Abrams (2014). “The Sacred Bombshell Handbook of Self-Love: The 11 Secrets of Feminine Power”, p.25, El Dorado Publishing
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“I found I wasn't asking good enough questions because I assumed I knew something.”
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“I love going out and it is a bit sad when the photographers stop asking you for your picture.”
Source : "Meet La Belle Anglaise" By Anna Pursglove, Evening Standard, December 15, 2000.
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“Poverty doesn't imply necessarily violence.”
Source : Interview with Lucia Newman, www.cnn.com. January 8, 1997.
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