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"The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking."
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"I define genuine full employment as a situation where there are at least as many job openings as there are persons seeking employment, probably calling for a rate of unemployment, as currently measured, of between 1 and 2 percent."

"I went downtown as a lawyer and then I worked in a liquor store at night, as I had done all through law school. And so when I got to the point where I could give up the night job, I joined the political club."

"An excellent job with a dubious undertaking, which is like saying it would be great if it wasn't awful."
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"Wealth, in even the most improbable cases, manages to convey the aspect of intelligence."

"Liberalism is, I think, resurgent. One reason is that more and more people are so painfully aware of the alternative."

"Money differs from an automobile or mistress in being equally important to those who have it and those who do not."

"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."

"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."

"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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