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| Few things are more tempting to a writer than to repeat, admiringly, what he has said before |
| Writers |
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| Humor is richly rewarding to the person who employs it. It has some value in gaining and holding attention, but it has no persuasive value at all. |
| Humor; Value |
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| If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error. |
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| If it is dangerous to suppose that government is always right, it will sooner or later be awkward for public administration if most people suppose that it is always wrong |
| Government |
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| If we were not in Vietnam, all that part of the world would be enjoying the obscurity it so richly deserves |
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| If wrinkles must be written upon our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should never grow old. |
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| In all life one should comfort the afflicted, but verily, also, one should afflict the comfortable, and especially when they are comfortably, contentedly, even happily wrong. |
| Life |
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| In any great organization it is far, far safer to be wrong with the majority than to be right alone. |
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| In central banking as in diplomacy, style, conservative tailoring, and an easy association with the affluent count greatly and results far much less |
| Bankers and banks |
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| In economics it is a far, far wiser thing to be right than to be consistent |
| Economics |
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| In economics, hope and faith coexist with great scientific pretension and also a deep desire for respectability. |
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| In the choice between changing ones mind and proving there's no need to do so, most people get busy on the proof. |
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| In the United States, though power corrupts, the expectation of power paralyzes. |
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| In the usual (though certainly not in every) public decision on economic policy, the choice is between courses that are almost equally good or equally bad. It is the narrowest decisions that are most ardently debated. If the world is lucky enough to enjoy peace, it may even one day make the discovery, to the horror of doctrinaire free-enterprisers and doctrinaire planners alike, that what is called capitalism and what is called socialism are both capable of working quite well. |
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| Increasingly in recent times we have come first to identify the remedy that is most agreeable, most convenient, most in accord with major pecuniary or political interest, the one that reflects our available faculty for action; then we move from the remedy so available or desired back to a cause to which that remedy is relevant. |
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| Inflation does not lubricate trade but by rescuing traders from their errors of optimism or stupidity |
| Optimism |
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| Inventions that are not made, like babies that are not born, are not missed. |
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| It is a commonplace of modern technology that problems have solutions before there is knowledge of how they are to be solved |
| Knowledge; Problems |
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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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