- Moral
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Overrated
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- Nov 07, 2020
Modesty is a vastly overrated virtue.
- Few People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Few people at the beginning of the nineteenth century needed an adman to tell them what they wanted.
- Award
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- Nov 07, 2020
The salary of the chief executive of a large corporation is not a market award for achievement. It is frequently in the nature of a warm personal gesture by the individual to himself.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Liberalism is, I think, resurgent. One reason is that more and more people are so painfully aware of the alternative.
- Better
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is a far, far better thing to have a firm anchor in nonsense than to put out on the troubled seas of thought.
- Busy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof.
- Between
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- Nov 07, 2020
Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.
- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020
The commencement speech is not, I think, a wholly satisfactory manifestation of our culture.
- Fiction
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have escapist fiction, so why not escapist biography?
- American Audience
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- Nov 07, 2020
Economics is a subject profoundly conducive to cliche, resonant with boredom. On few topics is an American audience so practiced in turning off its ears and minds. And none can say that the response is ill advised.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
If wrinkles must be written upon our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should never grow old.
- Devil
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- Nov 07, 2020
A bad book is the worse that it cannot repent. It has not been the devil's policy to keep the masses of mankind in ignorance; but finding that they will read, he is doing all in his power to poison their books.
- Choice
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the choice between changing ones mind and proving there's no need to do so, most people get busy on the proof.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
In any great organization it is far, far safer to be wrong with the majority than to be right alone.
- Communism
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- Nov 07, 2020
Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite.
- Emotions
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- Nov 07, 2020
A person buying ordinary products in a supermarket is in touch with his deepest emotions.
- Employs
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are few ironclad rules of diplomacy but to one there is no exception. When an official reports that talks were useful, it can safely be concluded that nothing was accomplished.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's a certain part of the contented majority who love anybody who is worth a billion dollars.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
The process by which banks create money is so simple that the mind is repelled.
- Interesting
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is certainly no absolute standard of beauty. That precisely is what makes its pursuit so interesting.
- Discarded
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- Nov 07, 2020
Power is not something that can be assumed or discarded at will like underwear.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Metropolis should have been aborted long before it became New York, London or Tokyo.
- Comfortable
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Economic
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Custodian
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- Nov 07, 2020
It would be foolish to suggest that government is a good custodian of aesthetic goals. But, there is no alternative to the state.
- Leadership
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- Nov 07, 2020
All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership.
- Criticism
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Differs
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- Nov 07, 2020
Money differs from an automobile or mistress in being equally important to those who have it and those who do not.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
By all but the pathologically romantic, it is now recognized that this is not the age of the small man.
- Little
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- Nov 07, 2020
We can safely abandon the doctrine of the eighties, namely that the rich were not working because they had too little money, the poor because they had much.
- Place
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- Nov 07, 2020
Total physical and mental inertia are highly agreeable, much more so than we allow ourselves to imagine. A beach not only permits such inertia but enforces it, thus neatly eliminating all problems of guilt. It is now the only place in our overly active world that does.
- Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020
People who are in a fortunate position always attribute virtue to what makes them so happy.
- Character
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- Nov 07, 2020
The conspicuously wealthy turn up urging the character building values of the privation of the poor.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
Wealth is not without its advantages and the case to the contrary, although it has often been made, has never proved widely persuasive.
- Finance
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- Nov 07, 2020
Wealth, in even the most improbable cases, manages to convey the aspect of intelligence.
- Economics
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- Nov 07, 2020
In economics, the majority is always wrong.
- Deep Desire
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- Nov 07, 2020
In economics, hope and faith coexist with great scientific pretension and also a deep desire for respectability.
- Seeing
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is something wonderful in seeing a wrong-headed majority assailed by truth.
- Human
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- Nov 07, 2020
War remains the decisive human failure.
- Forecasting
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- Nov 07, 2020
The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable.
- Must
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- Nov 07, 2020