"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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"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 appreciate the noble is a gain which can never be torn from us."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German Poet

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"I certainly believe that we gain through open trade and liberalisation."

Peter Mandelson, British Politician

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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."

Milton Friedman, American Economist

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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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"But in practice, if often comes down to not suffering a loss as big as the huge gain you made a while ago."

Merton Miller, American Economist

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"Sometimes the best gain is to lose."

George Herbert, British Poet

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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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"If you make listening and observation your occupation you will gain much more than you can by talk."

Robert Baden-Powell, English Soldier

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

Tony Hancock, British Comedian

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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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"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."

Life

"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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"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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"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."

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

Government

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

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"It's insane to try to balance the budget."

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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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"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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"This paper was one of my digressions into abstract economics."

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