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"I write for the same reason I breathe - because if I didn't, I would die."
"No emotion is, in itself, a judgement; in that sense all emotions and sentiments are alogical. but they can be reasonable or unreasonable as they conform to Reason or fail to conform. The heart never takes the place of the head: but it can, and should, obey it."
"It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into."
"It is good to be solitary, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult must be a reason the more for us to do it."
"But the single overwhelming reason why jails are bursting is longer sentences given for more crimes."
"If some things don't make you lose your sense of reason, then you have none to lose."
"Sometimes the road less traveled is less traveled for a reason."
"Warner Bros offered me the next Batman, and the only reason that I didn't do it was because of The Saint."
"The only reason to invest in the market is because you think you know something others don't."
Explore more quotes by William Vickrey
"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."
"If unemployment could be brought down to say 2 percent at the cost of an assured steady rate of inflation of 10 percent per year, or even 20 percent, this would be a good bargain."
"Deficits do not in themselves produce inflation, nor does a balanced budget assure a stable price level."
"The nominal budget is a poor indicator of the impact of government outlays and revenues."
"The supply-side effect of a restrictive monetary policy is likely to be perverse, in that high interest rates enter into costs and thus exert inflationary pressure."
"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."
"The insane pursuit of the holy grail of a balanced budget in the end is going to drive the economy into a depression."
"There is no real justification for a requirement that a budget of any sort should be balanced, except as a rallying point for those who seek to hamstring government."
"Currently a level of unemployment of 7 percent or more seems to be required to keep inflation from accelerating, a level quite unacceptable as a permanent situation."
"Firms would be given initial entitlements to gross markup on the basis of past performance. These entitlements would be transferable and a market in them would be developed."
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