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“As Charles Darwin said, ‘The economy shown by Nature in her resources is striking,” says the Spirit. ‘All wealth comes from Nature. Without it, there wouldn’t be any economics. The primary wealth is food, not money. Therefore anything that concerns the handling of the land also concerns me.” (Payback Quotes)
Margaret Atwood
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“As the old joke goes, Christianity, great religion, just never been tried.”
Margaret Atwood
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“In Heaven, there are no debts – all have been paid, one way or another – but in Hell there’s nothing but debts, and a great deal of payment is exacted, though you can’t ever get all paid up. You have to pay, and pay, and keep on paying. So Hell is like an infernal maxed-out credit card that multiplies the charges endlessly.”
Margaret Atwood
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“Modern research backs up Dickens and Rackham, apparently rich people are not made happier simply by having a lot of wealth, but they are made happier when they give some of their wealth away. I read about this phenomenon in a newspaper, so it must be true.”
Margaret Atwood
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“Money isn’t the only thing that must flow and circulate in order to have good value: good turns and gifts must flow and circulate… for any social system to remain in balance.”
Margaret Atwood
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“Nature is an expert in cost-benefit analysis,’ she says. ‘Although she does her accounting a little differently. As for debts, she always collects in the long run.”
Margaret Atwood
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“Scrooge is about to say that rich people deserve to be rich because of their superior genes and moral fibre, but he catches the Spirit frowning at him and refrains.”
Margaret Atwood
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“She was an infallible prophetess, and these powers came from her ability to look into the patterns of the universe.”
Margaret Atwood
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“That was nothing but fair. I never wanted anything but what was fair”. Some debts can’t be discharged by money payments, and this is one of them.”
Margaret Atwood
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“The new world of money, in his eyes, is the City of Destruction, and the most important thing you can do is to make your way out of it as fast as possible.”
Margaret Atwood
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“The trickle-down theory of economics has it that it’s good for rich people to get even richer because some of their wealth will trickle own, through their no doubt lavish spending, upon those who stand below them on the economic ladder. Notice that the metaphor is not that of a gushing waterfall but of a leaking tap: even the most optimistic endorsers of this concept do not picture very much real flow, as their language reveals.”
Margaret Atwood
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“Within each of these categories, the principle was the same: rarity and beauty increased value.”
Margaret Atwood
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