It would be foolish to suggest that government is a good custodian of aesthetic goals. But, there is no alternative to the state.
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Where humor is concerned there are no standards - no one can say what is good or bad, although you can be sure that everyone will.
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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.
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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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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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Few can believe that suffering, especially by others, is in vain. Anything that is disagreeable must surely have beneficial economic effects.
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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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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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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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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.
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