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No matter how hard, competent, self-assured, or respected you are, no matter what you think of yourself or what others think of you, the one thing you deeply long for is love. No matter where we are, who we are, what we are, or what kind of journey we are on, we all need love.
Justin maintains that the Christians’ sexual discipline attracted to the faith an “uncounted multitude of those who have turned away from incontinence.”
The Patient Ferment of the Early Church
Alan Kreider
Interest rates, for example, register the average expected returns across the economy. With a near-zero-interest-rate policy, the Fed falsely zeroes out the cost of time by nullifying the yield of saving. The Fed tells you that the opportunity cost of spending today is zero, which is true only if you die tomorrow. This deception retards economic growth. Rather than creating new assets, low-cost money borrowed from tomorrow bids up existing assets today. It produces no new learning or value and leaves no way to pay back the debt.
The Scandal of Money
George Gilder
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