“Economics is a subject profoundly conducive to cliche, resonant with boredom. On few topics is an American audience so practiced in turning off its ears and minds. And none can say that the response is ill advised.”
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The great dialectic in our time is not, as anciently and by some still supposed, between capital and labor; it is between economic enterprise and the state.
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It is a far, far better thing to have a firm anchor in nonsense than to put out on the troubled seas of thought.
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Meetings are a great trap. Soon you find yourself trying to get agreement and then the people who disagree come to think they have a right to be persuaded. However, they are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.
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Wealth is not without its advantages and the case to the contrary, although it has often been made, has never proved widely persuasive.
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People who are in a fortunate position always attribute virtue to what makes them so happy.
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