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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." | |
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Found in the topic Humor.
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| "Politics is not the art of the posssible. It consists in choosing
between the disastrous and the unpalatable." | |
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Found in the topic Politics.
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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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Found in the topic Unsorted.
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| "There is certainly no absolute standard of beauty. That precisely is
what makes its pursuit so interesting." | |
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Found in the topic Beauty.
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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." | |
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Found in the topic Comfort.
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| "People are the common denominator of progress. So ... no improvement
is possible with unimproved people, and advance is certain when people are
liberated and educated. It would be wrong to dismiss the importance of
roads, railroads, power plants, mills, and the other familiar furniture of
economic development.... But we are coming to realize ... that there is a
certain sterility in economic monuments that stand alone in a sea of
illiteracy. Conquest of illiteracy comes first." | |
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Found in the topic Easy.
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| "The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look
respectable." | |
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Found in the topic Astrology.
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| "Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory." | |
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Found in the topic Nothing.
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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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Found in the topic Remedy.
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| "Wealth is not without its advantages, and the case to the contrary,
although it has often been made, has never proved widely
persuasive." | |
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Found in the topic Wealth.
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| "Faced with the choice between changing one"s mind and proving there
is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof." | |
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Found in the topic Mind.
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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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Found in the topic Conservative.
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| "You will find that the State is the kind of organization which,
though it does big things badly, does small things badly, too." | |
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Found in the topic State.
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| "When people are the least sure, they are often the most
dogmatic." | |
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Found in the topic Work.
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| "Meetings are indispensable when you don"t want to do
anything." | |
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Found in the topic Committee.
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| "Modesty is a vastly overrated virtue." | |
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Found in the topic Modesty.
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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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Found in the topic Risk.
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| "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." | |
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Found in the topic Gravity.
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