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| Originality is something that is easily exaggerated, especially by authors contemplating their own work. |
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| People of privilege will always risk their complete destruction rather than surrender any material part of their advantage |
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| People who are in a fortunate position always attribute virtue to what makes them so happy. |
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| Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable. |
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| Power is not something that can be assumed or discarded at will like underwear. |
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| Production only fills a void that it has itself created |
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| Several times I concluded that there was too much detail; always I returned to continue and enjoy the book. |
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| The commencement speech is not, I think, a wholly satisfactory manifestation of our culture. |
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| The conspicuously wealthy turn up urging the character building values of the privation of the poor. |
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| The contented and economically comfortable have a very discriminating view of government. Nobody is ever indignant about bailing out failed banks and failed savings and loans associations. But when taxes must be paid for the lower middle class and poor, the government assumes an aspect of wickedness. |
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| The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking. |
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| The enemy of the conventional wisdom is not ideas but the march of events. |
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| The great dialectic in our time is not, as anciently and by some still supposed, between capital and labor; it is between economic enterprise and the state. |
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| The happiest time in any man's life is just after the first divorce |
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| The individual serves the industrial system not by supplying it with savings and the resulting capital; he serves it by consuming its products |
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| The man who is admired for the ingenuity of his larceny is almost always rediscovering some earlier form of fraud. The basic forms are all known, have all been practiced. The manners of capitalism improve. The morals may not. |
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| The Metropolis should have been aborted long before it became New York, London or Tokyo. |
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| The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. |
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| The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable. |
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