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...As Mises aptly puts it: "It rests with men whether they will make proper use of the rich treasure with which this knowledge [of economics] provides them or whether they will leave it unused...
...I hope it doesn't take something like this to bring us together," Michael remarked...
...October 12, 1983] THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR MARCH I984 47 "Perhaps the most " portant Im economic t r e a t / s e o f our t/me" - WALL STREET JOURNAL Human Action is the most compelling case for economic freedom ever made...
...We watched in silence as the two men in the film held each other...
...they will stamp our society and the human race...
...It should become the leading text of everyone who believes in freedom, in individualism, and in a free-market economy...
...They (students) can get the other side any way they turn...
...November 5, 1983] The Kansas City Star A registered agent o f the late Jesus Christ answers a r e p o r t e r ' s inquiry as to whether she will follow a balanced approach to discussing nuclear warfare in the classroom: "Not me,"said Sister Anne Shepard, who teaches a social justice course to juniors at Bishop Miege High School in Roeland Park...
...For the rest, it may help to recognize how often Thanksgiving in practice falls short of the theory, and to moderate expectations accordingly...
...also has a master's o f divinity degree from Candler School o f Theology and " a second degree brown belt in k a r a t e " to go along with her television set: We laughed and talked during the first hour of the movie...
...A friend from New England still can't think of Thanksgiving without a jolt, remembering the time his wife, impelled by seasonal altruism, invited her first husband to dinner...
...We identified with the farming scenario, and we remarked that the people in the movie seemed just like us...
...I asked her, gently, I hope...
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...We have a bad self-image...
...And I kept hearing myself answer Him, "Lord, I believe...
...It will not happen as in the book of that name, but it is happening already in other ways...
...Someday we shall overcome...
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...And it is tearing the city apart...
...The room grew deathly quiet as we watched...
...When some people suffer from acute appendicitis, or from acute memories...
...We don't like ourselves...
...One girl got up and left the room to walk outside for a while...
...Laura, age 9, asked innocently, "But, did the little boy die too...
...Instead, they wanted his opinion on the topics or they wanted to laud him . . . . Donahue, who describes himself as a feminist, predicted more changes--such as those in women's attitudes--because "more and more people are questioning authority...
...He encouraged those lined up at four microphones placed around the Strahan Coliseum to express their opinions on topics they raised--the death penalty, war and patriotism...
...Leigh Ann Raynor o f the United Methodist Church, Inc...
...Who...
...September 27, 19831 The New York Times On Thanksgiving Day 1983, Wimp wisdom prevails in the lead editorial o f America's new, spaper o f record: Happy Thanksgiving...
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...When the fuses blow, leaving a halfcooked turkey congealing in the electric oven...
...Oh my God...
...Finally, this book is a warning...
...I think there is a real crisis of identity today...
...We saw the mushroom cloud of the attack and the people being instantly burned...
...Run oP ~ . . . . e, spread the word again that Amr t be redeemed, that the dignity ol ;on is not forgotten, that desperados lose in end, that good guys can finish first...
...There was no more joking or eating or laughing...
...We ate potato chips and brownies...
...For how long...
...annul economics...
...The reason why there's poverty, racism, lack of educational opportunities and discrimination against the elderly and the handicapped is because 50 percent of our money is tied up in the military," she said...
...asked Rochelle...
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...So do I. Finally, mercifully, it was over...
...Like other areas that retained a colonialstyle government far too long, Chicago has awakened to the possibility of revolution...
...Why didn't he stay inside...
...Just as man ignores the law of gravity at his peril, so too the immutable laws of economics...
...All of us," she replied quietly...
...It does seem that way, doesn't i t ? . . . The horror continued...
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...Mises is a cool logician, our greatest economic scholar, a passionate lover of freedom - - and a passionate hater of those who would take it away from us...
...Cheating increases job satisfaction, raises work production and makes for a healthier economy, according to Gerald Mars, who chronicled workplace crime in a study entitled "Cheats at Work...
...I would not spank my k i d s . . . I would learn to be a m o t h e r . . . I would be more sensitive to homosexuals...
...They can not believe that the dispossessed will be more generous than their long-time masters...
...The ice-maker in the kitchen loudly dropped a cube of ice...
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...Even if the day turns out bleak or troubled, one will not be alone...
...Somewhere in the back of my mind I kept hearing God saying, "Do not fear, only believe...
...Mises has nothing but scorn for the phony "compassion" of the Marxians and Keynesians - - because he sees how their theories actually breed suffering...
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...Blessings to them...
...Mars, who heads the Middlesex Polytechnic Center for Occupational and Community Research, published his study after l0 years of research in more than 30 jobs, including working as a waiter, a dockworker and a fairground attendant...
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...It is such a commonplace by now--the tale of the haves and the have-nots--but communications seem so all-benefiting and democratic that people may tend to sit passively (and the new technologies breed passivity) while some of their remaining birthright goes, so to speak, down the tubes...
...The young people gasped, and some turned their faces away, as if by doing so it would somehow make it all untrue...
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...Suddenly, there was no more laughing or joking or talking or eating potato chips or drinking Coke...
...It is, after all, the eve of 1984...
...Many people will no doubt find undiluted happiness and warmth today...
...That's something to be thankful about...
...Columnist Art Buchwald has called him an "American hero" and Donahue vehemently argues for the underdog and for what are considered liberal causes...
...Libby jumped and screamed, and we began to laugh...
...The tension was too great to only sit and watch...
...It seemed that way to me, too...
...The Rev...
...And it is fascinating...
...She used to tell me that I had nothing to be thankful for...
...Help Thou my unbelief...
...There was only silence in the room, and in that silence I realized that we were worshiping together...
...November 15, 19831 The Macon Telegraph and News Prime-time entertainment is experienced by the Rev...
...I t seems like they would wise up, doesn't it...
...It is the freemarket answer to Marx's Das Kapital and Keynes's General Theory...
...I f I could start over again, I would have more women friends," he said...
...Dream on, George...
...The young people went home, and there alone in my den, I was afraid...
...No m I computers...
...In that brief, powerful moment, our minds and hearts and our very souls turned away from hate and war and thoughts of revenge, and turned instead to peace on earth, good will toward men and women...
...We had to...
...One by one, he sweeps away the dangerous fallacies of liberalism and socialism...
...November 24, 1983] The Daily Gleaner A great Canadian daily reports yet another modern peril well in advance o f the offending season: Singing Christmas carols in classrooms can be harmful to non-Christian students, the Commons committee on racism was told Tuesday...
...C U R R E N T W I S D O M . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0 . . . . . . . . . The Austin American-Record New Age charlatanry being practiced ardently and at a fat p r o f i t : Guru Phil Donahue at work in a famous auditorium abounding with neurotics, his favorite prey: Most of the concerns Donahue expressed during his hour-long lecture were for women's issues...
...Yes...
...But if they fail to take the best advantage of it and disreg~.rd its teachings and warnings, they will no...
...All too often, Thanksgiving turns out to be a time when people have to leave their families to play ha holiday concerts out of town...
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...The biggest threat to this country isn't the Russians," he said...
...Will the dog die too...
...The scenes wouldn't stop, and they wouldn't go away...
...And then you should have heard her when the men started moving chairs around to watch football on TV...
...When whites say that Washington's election would mean the blacks will "get it all," they are in effect acknowledging their guilty understanding that, in the past, blacks got next to nothing...
...In his study, Mars divides cheating workers into four categories--wolves, vultures, hawks and donkeys...
...Henry Hazlitt "An arsenal of fact and logic for those at war with the Marxists and Fabians...
...I remarked that in the aftermath of the attack, black and white people were living together side by side...
...We saw the little boy blinded by the blast...
...The dog will die too...
...who invited "eleven young people, their ages ranging from 9 to 23," to her parsonage to enjoy The Day After...
...Happy Thanksgiving...
...Rose Wilder Lane "If any single book can turn the ideological tide that has been running in recent years so heavily toward statism, socialism, and totalitarianism, Human Action is that book...
...I'll stand by you, because, to quote Ted Kennedy, "The dream will never die...
...von Mises has made a tremendous contribution to economic thinking in a world that thinks only economics...
...November 4, 1983] The Milwaukee Journal In the correspondence page o f the eminent Milwaukee Journal the Thomas Paine o f Stevens Point waxes hortatively: Run on, George McGovern, keep plugging away and never give up, because we cannot afford to give up on all that is good and wonderful about America...
...We saw the burned skin and the hair falling out...
...It will come I ' | I automatically...
...I f you believe in such a thing, you haven't met my exmother-in-law," says an Englishwoman who married an American...
...Chicago Daily News "Dr...
...Then we saw the missiles being launched, and we understood that there was little time left before those people who seemed just like us would be dead...
...Yes...
...April 3, 19831 National Catholic Reporter Why Albania and Upper Volta remain Albania and Upper Volta in the eyes o f a devout historicist at the National Catholic Reporter: The thesis here is that a few--individuals and nations--are, and plan to remain, the beneficiaries of the information revolution...
...I t ' s our own inability to make democracy or capitalism work...
...This is how it was in the wake of the printing press, the railroads, the whole industrial revolution, each successive "step forward...
...The only sounds were an occasionally whispered, "Oh God...
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...Lawrence Fertig "The finest economic treatise of this generation...
...Patrick Henry Dunn Stevens Point [October 19, 1983] The New York Daily News New currents o f thought waft through the sociological community: Stealing office pens, cheating on expenses or letting the company pick up private bills is healthy and should be continued, according to a study made public today...
...Laura asked...
...Someone groaned as she saw a man walking in the fallout, and she realized that he would soon be dead...
...It must have seemed to her that somehow the innocent, blameless little ones should have been spared--immune in some way...
...December 3, 19831 The Boston Globe Third World analysis found in the pages o f the illustrious Globe o f Boston: This is a city where anything you want--a job, a contract, a trash can for your home, books for your school, a cop to protect your business--depends on who you know in City Hall...
...In that moment we turned back to a God who is a God of peace, a God of life, a God of love and a God of hope...
...Do it again, George, even if our dreams were shattered in '72...
...He said no one group is responsible for inadequate education, family violence, crime, war and alcoholism...
...I would be present at the birth of my children...
...Vermont Royster "[Mises] offers a combination of great scholarship and the rare ability to make an abstruse economic subject interesting...
...I asked...
...This (her class) is news to them...
...It's an American holiday...
...We drank Coke and Mountain Dew and exchanged what little information we had, or thought we had, about nuclear weapons...
...Sometimes the only sounds in the room were the barely audible whispers saying, "Oh gross," and "Oh my God, no, no...
...For even the briefest of moments there was true worship--worship in spirit and in truth...
...Oh no...
...He said the greatest obstacle to the women's movement is the "male fear of the loss of power . . . . " He pleaded with his audience not to consider him a "bleeding heart" or an "idealist...
...Thus Human Action is the economic masterwork of our age - - and, at the same time, a soaring hymn to human freedom...
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...she tried to rationalize...
...There have always been elites in a position to exploit new developments, and this exploitation entailed keeping the real benefits of the new discoveries from others...
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