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• People are the common denominator of progress. So... no improvement is possible with unimproved people, and advance is certain when people are…
• In the United States all business not transacted over the telephone is accomplished in conjunction with alcohol or food, often under conditions…
• There is a common tendency to ignore the poor or to develop some rationalisation for the good fortune of the fortunate.
• People are the common denominator of progress; no improvement is possible with unimproved people.
• In the usual (though certainly not in every) public decision on economic policy, the choice is between courses that are almost equally…
• There is an old saying, or should be, that it is a wise economist who recognizes the scope of his own generalizations.
• There are times in politics when you must be on the right side and lose.
• There can be no question, however, that prolonged commitment to mathematical exercises in economics can be damaging. It leads to the atrophy…

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