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William Vickrey

"Balancing a nominal budget will solve nothing, and attempting to achieve such a spurious balance will produce much mischief."

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"Balancing a nominal budget will solve nothing, and attempting to achieve such a spurious balance will produce much mischief."

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Amber Hurdle

"There is more to life than making a living. Do not work more than you live."

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"Each way of being is more valued in the presence of the other. This balance between making camp and following the seasons is both very ancient and very new. We all need both."

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"You said your mom is the goddess of balance," I reminded him. "The minor gods deserve better, Ethan, but total destruction isn't balance. Kronos doesn't build. He only destroys."

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"If you are too busy to love, you are too busy to live; if you are too busy to live, you are too busy to love."

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Amber Hurdle

"Skill + hard work = SuccessSkill + hard work + prayer = Great success"

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Amber Hurdle

"The sea, no matter how endless, depends on rivers."

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"Life is a balance between giving and receiving. The more you give, the more abundance will fill your life with joy."

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"The sweet spot is where duty and delight converge."

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"The heart is like a woman, and the head is like a man, and although man is the head of woman, woman is the heart of man, and she turns man's head because she turns his heart."

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"We all encounter things that we can't perhaps change and that's OK because surely there are many other things that we can."

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"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."
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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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"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."
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"Nearly all educational expenditure should be considered a capital outlay, whether it provides a future return in the form of enhanced taxable income or in terms of an enhanced quality of life."
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"This paper was one of my digressions into abstract economics."
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"The insane pursuit of the holy grail of a balanced budget in the end is going to drive the economy into a depression."
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"Larger deficits are necessary and proper means to mitigate unemployment as the far greater evil in terms of human welfare."
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"There is no reason inherent in the real resources available to us why we cannot move rapidly within the next two or three years to a state of genuine full employment."
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"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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"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."
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