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John Kenneth Galbraith

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

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Amber Hurdle

"Better to just be real. Show up and do your job and be a nice person."

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"Practically, the desirable situation ought to be one in which any reasonably responsible person willing to accept available employment can find a job paying a living wage within 48 hours."

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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."

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"I loved playing and I was actually working two jobs."

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"No verse is libre for the man who wants to do a good job."

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Amber Hurdle

"A job is a very healthy thing to do."

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"The greatest teacher I know is the job itself."

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"I'm a guy who never wanted to hold a steady job, because I was worried about the monotony."

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Amber Hurdle

"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."

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Amber Hurdle

"An excellent job with a dubious undertaking, which is like saying it would be great if it wasn't awful."

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"Liberalism is, I think, resurgent. One reason is that more and more people are so painfully aware of the alternative."
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"There are times in politics when you must be on the right side and lose."
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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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"There is something wonderful in seeing a wrong-headed majority assailed by truth."
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"Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything."
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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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"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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"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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"All successful revolutions are the kicking in of a rotten door."
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