"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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"I had to gain weight until I looked like a seal so I could compete with the real whores who played the other roles. I was fat as a barrel."

Victoria Abril, Spanish Actress

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"I don't think I gain anything by seeing myself."

Tony Hancock, British Comedian

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"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

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"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

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"What makes something special is not just what you have to gain, but what you feel there is to lose."

Andre Agassi, American Athlete

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"To mourn and bewail your ill-fortune, when you will gain a tear from those who listen, this is worth the trouble."

Aeschylus, Greek Poet

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"Since he is of no use anymore, there is no gain if he lives and no loss if he dies."

Pol Pot, Cambodian Criminal

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"Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempest."

Epicurus, Greek Philosopher

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"It's not right to say that our loss in Vietnam turned out to be a gain. But lessons were learned. And they were the right lessons."

Tom Clancy, American Novelist

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"He who seeks for gain, must be at some expense."

Titus Maccius Plautus, Roman Poet

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"We have a system that increasingly taxes work and subsidizes nonwork."

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"The most important single central fact about a free market is that no exchange takes place unless both parties benefit."

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"Most of the energy of political work is devoted to correcting the effects of mismanagement of government."

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"Columbus did not seek a new route to the Indies in response to a majority directive."

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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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"So that the record of history is absolutely crystal clear. That there is no alternative way, so far discovered, of improving the lot of the ordinary people that can hold a candle to the productive activities that are unleashed by a free enterprise system."

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

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"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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"The Great Depression, like most other periods of severe unemployment, was produced by government mismanagement rather than by any inherent instability of the private economy."

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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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