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| It is almost as important to know what is not serious as to know what is. |
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| It is not necessary to advertise food to hungry people, fuel to cold people, or houses to the homeless. |
| Advertising; Food |
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| It would be foolish to suggest that government is a good custodian of aesthetic goals. But, there is no alternative to the state. |
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| Liberalism is, I think, resurgent. One reason is that more and more people are so painfully aware of the alternative. |
| Liberalism |
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| Man, at least when educated, is a pessimist. He believes it safer not to reflect on his achievements; Jove is known to strike such people down. |
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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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| Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything. |
| Meetings |
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| Money differs from an automobile or mistress in being equally important to those who have it and those who do not. |
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| Money is a singular thing. It ranks with love as man's greatest source of joy. And with death as his greatest source of anxiety. Over all history it has oppressed nearly all people in one of two ways: either it has been abundant and very unreliable, or reliable and very scarce. |
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| More die in the United States of too much food than of too little. |
| Food |
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| Much literary criticism comes from people for whom extreme specialization is a cover for either grave cerebral inadequacy or terminal laziness, the latter being a much cherished aspect of academic freedom. |
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| Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory. |
| Politics |
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| Of all classes the rich are the most noticed and the least studied. |
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| On the first of January of 1929, as a simple matter of probability, it was most likely that the boom would end before the year was out, ... The market wouldn't level out; it would fall precipitately. |
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| Once the visitor was told rather repetitively that this city was the melting pot; never before in history had so many people of such varied languages, customs, colors and culinary habits lived so amicably together. Although New York remains peaceful by most standards, this self-congratulation is now less often heard, since it was discovered some years ago that racial harmony depended unduly on the willingness of the blacks (and latterly the Puerto Ricans) to do for the other races the meanest jobs at the lowest wages and then to return to live by themselves in the worst slums. |
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| One can relish the varied idiocy of human action during a panic to the full, for, while it is a time of great tragedy, nothing is being lost but money |
| Action |
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| One of the best ways of avoiding necessary and even urgent tasks is to seem to be busily employed on things that are already done |
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| One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know. |
| Wisdom |
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| One of the little-celebrated powers of Presidents (and other high government officials) is to listen to their critics with just enough sympathy to ensure their silence. |
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