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

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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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"By use you possess gain; by disuse you decline and lose."

Edwin Louis Cole, American Author

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"We will build new ships to carry man forward into the universe, to gain a new foothold on the moon and to prepare for new journeys to the worlds beyond our own."

George W. Bush, American President

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"One of the greatest victories you can gain over someone is to beat him at politeness."

Josh Billings, American Comedian

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

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, American Poet

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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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"Redistricting is a deeply political process, with incumbents actively seeking to minimize the risk to themselves (via bipartisan gerrymanders) or to gain additional seats for their party (via partisan gerrymanders)."

Thomas E. Mann, American Sociologist

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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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"Between each album I try to gain a new insight that I didn't have before and perhaps write a song about something that I've written about before, but from a fresh viewpoint."

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

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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."

Job

"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."

Economy

"Deficits do not in themselves produce inflation, nor does a balanced budget assure a stable price level."

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"The nominal budget is a poor indicator of the impact of government outlays and revenues."

Government

"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."

Policy

"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."

Job

"The insane pursuit of the holy grail of a balanced budget in the end is going to drive the economy into a depression."

Politics

"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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"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."

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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."

Performance