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...Samuel 26:20. † Fleas also have their cultural aspects. For centuries, they have been used as entertainers in flea circuses. In Goethe's Faust, Mephistopheles sings of "a king, A lovely queen had he-But dearer far than queen or son. He loved a big black flea. . . ." Upon this item Russian Composer Modest Petrovich Moussorgsky based his Song of the Flea...
...reasons were just the opposite. Then all nations were gripped by deflation. They had unemployment, falling prices, and few had the cash to buy. Nations found that the best way to handle deflation was to export it. They devalued their currencies (to sell cheaper abroad and make imports dearer), upped their tariffs, set up import quotas. In short, they tried to dump their unemployment and deflation on one another. This policy failed dismally because everybody devalued. Instead of exporting deflation, everybody got poorer...
...dearer to the vultures than to their
...Ramakrishna, no deity was dearer than Kali. For years his absorbing passion was to become a paramahamsa-one who reached life's highest earthly stage-and see Kali "as tangibly as the temples, the trees, the river." Eventually...
...although Indians have no love for Britain, they universally abhor the Nazi principles of military domination and the German record of ruthless colonial exploitation. For various reasons India wants to keep out of World War II altogether. Mohandas K. Gandhi wants to because the principle of non-violence is dearer to him than freedom itself; the Indian National Congress wants to because it is determined to exploit the plight of Great Britain to secure complete independence...