Francois Quesnay quotes
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“To secure the greatest amount of pleasure with the least possible outlay should be the aim of all economic effort.”
-- Francois QuesnaySource : "Economics, Modern Business". Book by J. D. Vassie, Paul Chadburn, p. 137, 1935.
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“Without that sense of security which property gives, the land would still be uncultivated.”
-- Francois QuesnaySource : "The EuroAtlantic Union Review: Vol. 1 - No. 0/2014". Book by Dario Velo, p. 96, 2014.
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“Laissez Faire, laissez passer. Let it be, let it pass. The phrase is not readily translatable. It was widely used by the Physiocrats in urging freedom from government interference and was adopted by Adam Smith.”
-- Francois Quesnay
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“It was almost forbidden in the Soviet Union to study the New Economic Policy.”
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“A postsecondary education is the ticket to economic success in America.”
Source : "Lower Student Loan Interest Rates" by Sec. Arne Duncan, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 27, 2012.
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“To have given pleasure to one human being is a recollection that sweetens life.”
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“Pleasure, or wrong or rightly understood, Our greatest evil, or our greatest good.”
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“Pleasure has no logic; it never treads in its own footsteps.”
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Source : Alexander Smith (1863). “Dreamthorp: A Book of Essays Written in the Country”, p.60
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