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As a forecaster, Marx shared the common destiny of all prophets: to be belied by events.
Sometimes it looks as if, the better off they [nations] become, the bigger do they conceive the gap between what is actually their lot and what would be desirable, while in the poor countries large masses of people seem to be satisfied by merely surviving.
People become less inhibited from wanting to change social and economic conditions in a radical fashion according to their own interests, and from being prepared to think of state intervention in ever wider spheres as possible and useful for this purpose.
There is apparently nowhere a workable majority in the representative assemblies for making the specific cuts in expenditure which could bring down the taxes, and in election after election the people vote into power representatives who are as unable as they are unwilling to do anything about it.
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Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.
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Things don't change. You change your way of looking, that's all.
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Before God we are all equally wise-equally foolish.
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Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours.
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