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• I wish I'd drunk more champagne.
• It is better that a man should tyrannize over his bank balance than over his fellow-citizens and whilst the former is sometimes…
• This long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead. Economists set themselves too…
• The engine which drives enterprise is not thrift, but profit.
• Lenin is said to have declared that the best way to destroy the Capitalistic System was to debauch the currency. . .…
• [T]he theory of output as a whole, which is what the following book purports to provide, is much more easily adapted to…
• Government machinery has been described as a marvelous labor saving device which enables ten men to do the work of one.
• As time goes on, I get more and more convinced that the right method of investment is to put fairly large sums…
• Chess is a cure for headaches.
• It is better that a man should tyrannize over his bank balance than over his fellow-citizens.
• Unlike physics, for example, such parts of the bare bones of economic theory as are expressible in mathematical form are extremely easy…
• It economics is a method rather than a doctrine, an apparatus of the mind, a technique of thinking which helps its possessor…

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