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One man's consumption becomes his neighbor's wish.
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Economists are generally negligent of their heroes.
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Simple minds, presumably, are the easiest to manage.
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The greater the wealth the thicker will be the dirt.
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We do not manufacture wants for goods we do not produce.
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The enemy of the market is not ideology but the engineer.
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Nothing is more portable than rich people and their money
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The first goal of the technostructure is its own security.
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More die in the United States of too much food than of too little.
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Why is anything intrinsically so valueless so obviously desirable?
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Of all classes the rich are the most noticed and the least studied.
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The more underdeveloped the country, the more overdeveloped the women.
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If all else fails immortality can always be assured by adequate error.
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Only in very recent times has the average man been a source of savings.
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It takes some skill to spoil a breakfast—even the English can't do it.
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There are times in politics when you must be on the right side and lose.
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Very important functions can be performed very wastefully and often are.
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To add to the technostructure is to increase its power in the enterprise.
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The enemy of the conventional wisdom is not ideas but the march of events.
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If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error.
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Who is king in the world of the blind when there isn't even a one eyed man?
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One of the uses of depression is the exposure of what auditors fail to find.
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Foresight is an imperfect thing — all prevision in economics is imperfect.
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We do not experience and thus we have no measure of the disasters we prevent.
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Galbraith's law states that anyone who says he won't resign four times, will.
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Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.
Dorothy L. Sayers
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Born:
October 15, 1908
Died:
April 29, 2006
(aged 97)
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