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- When people are least sure, they are often most dogmatic.
- The happiest time of anyone's life is just after the first divorce.
- Nothing so weakens a government as inflation.
- There are times in politics when you must be on the right side and lose.
- Anyone who says he won't resign four times, will.
- The greater the wealth the thicker will be the dirt.
- The experience of being disastrously wrong is salutary, no economist should be denied it, and not many are.
- It was Herbert Spencer, not Charles Darwin, who coined the phrase Survival of the Fittest.
- Some things were never meant to be recycled.
- Originality is something that is easily exaggerated, especially by authors contemplating their own work.
- The privileged have regularly invited their own destruction with their greed.
- It's much easier to point out the problem than it is to say just how it should be solved.
- It takes some skill to spoil a breakfast - even the English can't do it.
- It is almost as important to know what is not serious as to know what is.
- Every corner of the public psyche is canvassed by some of the most talented citizens to see if the desire for some merchandisable product can…
- There is something wonderful in seeing a wrong-headed majority assailed by truth.
- The urge to consume is fathered by the value system which emphasizes the ability of the society to produce.
- The fully planned economy, so far from being unpopular, is warmly regarded by those who know it best.
- The more underdeveloped the country, the more overdeveloped the women.
- Where humor is concerned there are no standards - no one can say what is good or bad, although you can be sure that everyone…
- Much discussion of money involves a heavy overlay of priestly incantation.
- It is in the long run that the corporation lives.
- Very important functions can be performed very wastefully and often are.
- In the assumption that power belongs as a matter of course to capital, all economists are Marxians.
- It is not the individual's right to buy that is being protected. Rather, it is the seller's right to manage the individual.
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