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"During the gold rush its a good time to be in the pick and shovel business."
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"The economic base of a nation, is the foundation of the it's secrets."
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"I don't know where the stock market is going, but I will say this, that if it continues higher, this will do more to stimulate the economy than anything we've been talking about today or anything anybody else was talking about."
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"Since we took office, inflation, the fiscal deficit and the balance of payments current account deficit have all fallen. GDP growth, foreign exchange reserves, stock market valuations, and investor confidence have all increased. This success is the result of a series of well thought out policies."
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"And it will often happen that a man with wealth in the form of coined money will not have enough to eat, and what a ridiculous kind of wealth is that which even in abundance will not save you from dying with hunger!"
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"During the gold rush its a good time to be in the pick and shovel business."
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"Wealth ... and poverty: the one is the parent of luxury and indolence and the other of meanness and vicious-ness and both of discontent."
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"If you've got unemployment, low pay, that was just too bad. But that was the system. That was the sort of economy and philosophy against which I was fighting in the 1930s."
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"U.S. companies earn more from their investments in the EU than in the rest of the world combined."
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"The E.U. imports more agricultural goods from developing countries around the world than does the U.S., Canada and Japan, combined."
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"European investment in Texas alone exceeds all U.S. investment in China and Japan put together."
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"Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do."
Life
"The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up."
Happiness
"In the afternoon the ship's company assembled aft, on deck, under the awnings; the flute, the asthmatic meodeon, and the consumptive clarinet crippled the Star Spangled Banner, the choir chased it to cover, and George came in with a peculiarly lacerating screech on the final note and slaughtered it. Nobody mourned. We carried out the corpse on three cheers (that joke was not intentional and I do not endorse it)."
Humor
"When I am king they shall not have bread and shelter only, but also teachings out of books, for a full belly is little worth where the mind is starved."
Society
"One should never use exclamation points in writing. It is like laughing at your own joke."
Writing
"The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little."
Wisdom
"Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside."
Happiness
"Don't use a five-dollar word when a fifty-cent word will do."
Writing
"Schoolboy days are no happier than the days of afterlife, but we look back upon them regretfully because we have forgotten our punishments at school and how we grieved when our marbles were lost and our kites destroyed - because we have forgotten all the sorrows and privations of the canonized ethic and remember only its orchard robberies, its wooden-sword pageants, and its fishing holidays."
Reflection
"T[he rules of writing] require that the personages in a tale shall be alive, except in the case of corpses, and that always the reader shall be able to tell the corpses from the others."
Writing
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