Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists.

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There are times in politics when you must be on the right side and lose.

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If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error.

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The enemy of the conventional wisdom is not ideas but the march of events.

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Politics is the art of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.

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Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite.

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The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.

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One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know.

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The process by which banks create money is so simple that the mind is repelled.

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Power is not something that can be assumed or discarded at will like underwear.

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