"Most economic fallacies derive from the tendency to assume that there is a fixed pie, that one party can gain only at the expense of another."

Gain, Party

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"Most economic fallacies derive from the tendency to assume that there is a fixed pie, that one party can gain only at the expense of another."

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"The mandate you go with is intimidating and also is a source of respect that you gain, because you have come with this mandate from the United Nations."

Lakhdar Brahimi, Algerian Public Servant

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"So our problem is not Labour, it is us, is making us attractive enough to gain disillusioned Labour support and to compete effectively with the Lib Dems for those loose votes."

Francis Maude, British Politician

Gain, Support

"A mutual arrangement, I repeat, is the only satisfactory medium whereby the present system can be carried on with any degree of satisfaction, and in such an arrangement the employers have more to gain than the workers."

James Larkin, Irish Activist

Gain, Present, Satisfaction, Workers

"On the ordinary view of each species having been independently created, we gain no scientific explanation."

Charles Darwin, English Scientist

Gain,

"Increasingly prices are set by sellers to raise their prices without a loss of sales sufficient to wipe out the gain."

William Vickrey, Canadian Educator

Gain, Loss, Sales

"The rapture of pursuing is the prize the vanquished gain."

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, American Poet

Gain,

"I certainly believe that we gain through open trade and liberalisation."

Peter Mandelson, British Politician

Gain, Open, Trade

"I could never gain much weight. I've always had a fast metabolism."

Marc Wallice, American Actor

Gain, Weight

"If you make listening and observation your occupation you will gain much more than you can by talk."

Robert Baden-Powell, English Soldier

Gain, Listening, Observation, Occupation

"FDR created today's 30 percent coalition. Obama wants to finish the job by turning it into a permanent ruling majority. There's nothing new about the Obama Narrative. It is the FDR Narrative on steroids. It is intended to lead to greater statism and political gain."

Arthur C. Brooks, American Author

Gain, Job, Majority, Nothing

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"Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned."

Hell

"The only way that has ever been discovered to have a lot of people cooperate together voluntarily is through the free market. And that's why it's so essential to preserving individual freedom."

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"Many people want the government to protect the consumer. A much more urgent problem is to protect the consumer from the government."

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"The problem of social organization is how to set up an arrangement under which greed will do the least harm, capitalism is that kind of a system."

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"History suggests that capitalism is a necessary condition for political freedom. Clearly it is not a sufficient condition."

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"Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it."

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"Only government can take perfectly good paper, cover it with perfectly good ink and make the combination worthless."

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"One man's opportunism is another man's statesmanship."

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"Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program."

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"Inflation is the one form of taxation that can be imposed without legislation."

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