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It's (corruption) never been systemic, because a fish rots from the head,


Joseph Wambaugh

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JOSEPH CONRAD In sissy times, like these, one
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JOSEPH BRODSKY The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.
JOSEPH JOUBERT The evolution of the capitalist style of life could be easily -- and perhaps most tellingly -- descr...
JOSEPH SCHUMPETER Capitalism inevitably and by virtue of the very logic of its civilization creates, educates and subs...
JOSEPH SCHUMPETER The capitalist engine is first and last an engine of mass production which unavoidably also means pr...
JOSEPH SCHUMPETER Bureaucracy is not an obstacle to democracy but an inevitable complement to it.
JOSEPH SCHUMPETER Facing it, always facing it, that's the way to get through. Face it.
JOSEPH CONRAD To the believer Marxism presents, first, a system of ultimate ends that embody the meaning of life a...
JOSEPH SCHUMPETER Communication is a two-way street. And while we revel in the reality that we can always get through ...
JOSEPH STOWELL For the duration of its collective life, or the time during which its identity may be assumed, each ...
JOSEPH SCHUMPETER