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

Tony Hancock, British Comedian

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"Everyone in a complex system has a slightly different interpretation. The more interpretations we gather, the easier it becomes to gain a sense of the whole."

Margaret J. Wheatley, American Writer

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"A mutual arrangement, I repeat, is the only satisfactory medium whereby the present system can be carried on with any degree of satisfaction, and in such an arrangement the employers have more to gain than the workers."

James Larkin, Irish Activist

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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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"Sometimes the best gain is to lose."

George Herbert, British Poet

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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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"Every few seconds it changes - up an eighth, down an eighth -it's like playing a slot machine. I lose $20 million, I gain $20 million."

Ted Turner, American Businessman

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"I've never had to turn my hand to anything for monetary gain, other than pretending to be somebody else. I'm deeply fortunate."

Ben Kingsley, English Actor

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"You must lose everything in order to gain anything."

Brad Pitt, American Actor

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

Economy

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

Balance

"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

"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."

Reason

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

Government

"Larger deficits are necessary and proper means to mitigate unemployment as the far greater evil in terms of human welfare."

Evil

"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

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

Economy

"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."

Government