“ Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists. ”
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“ You will find that the State is the kind of organization which, though it does big things badly, does small things badly, too. ”
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“ Where humor is concerned there are no standards - no one can say what is good or bad, although you can be sure that everyone will. ”
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“ If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error. ”
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“ If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error. ”
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“ Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory. ”
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“ Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable. ”
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“ Faced with the choice between changing one’s mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof. ”
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“ There is certainly no absolute standard of beauty. That precisely is what makes its pursuit so interesting. ”
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“ Wisdom, itself, is often an abstraction associated not with fact or reality but with the man who asserts it and the manner of its assertion. ”
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“ Good writing, and this is especially important in a subject such as economics, must also involve the reader in the matter at hand. It is not enough to explain. The images that are in the mind of the writer must be made to reappear in the mind of the reader, and it is the absence of this ability that causes much economic writing to be condemned, quite properly, as abstract. ”
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“ None of this excuses anyone from mastering the basic ideas and terminology of economics. The intelligent layman must expect also to encounter good economists who are difficult writers even though some of the best have been very good writers. He should know, moreover, that at least for a few great men ambiguity of expression has been a positive asset. But with these exceptions he may safely conclude that what is wholly mysterious in economics is not likely to be important. ”
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“ One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know. ”
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“ The salary of the chief executive of a large corporation is not a market award for achievement. It is frequently in the nature of a warm personal gesture by the individual to himself. ”
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“ If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error. ”
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“ Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists. ”
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“ The salary of the chief executive of a large corporation is not a market award for achievement. It is frequently in the nature of a warm personal gesture by the individual to himself. ”
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“ Money differs from an automobile or mistress in being equally important to those who have it and those who do not. ”
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“ More die in the United States from too much food that from too little. ”
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“ In the United States, though power corrupts, the expectation of power paralyzes. ”
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“ Total physical and mental inertia are highly agreeable, much more so than we allow ourselves to imagine. A beach not only permits such inertia but enforces it, thus neatly eliminating all problems of guilt. It is now the only place in our overly active world that does. ”
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“ There's a certain part of the contented majority who love anybody who is worth a billion dollars. ”
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“ Total physical and mental inertia are highly agreeable, much more so than we allow ourselves to imagine. A beach not only permits such inertia but enforces it, thus neatly eliminating all problems of guilt. It is now the only place in our overly active world that does. ”
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“ The salary of the chief executive of a large corporation is not a market award for achievement. It is frequently in the nature of a warm personal gesture by the individual to himself. ”
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“ It would be foolish to suggest that government is a good custodian of aesthetic goals. But, there is no alternative to the state. ”
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“ The conspicuously wealthy turn up urging the character building values of the privation of the poor. ”
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“ The process by which banks create money is so simple that the mind is repelled. ”
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“ There's a certain part of the contented majority who love anybody who is worth a billion dollars. ”
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