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"Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists."
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"Economic growth cannot only be restricted to a few cities and a few citizens. Development has to be all-round and all-inclusive."

"Belonging to the working class is the economy's punishment for those who did what they were told to do in class."

"Because of the power that we have given money: The government would rather have taxpayers who do not vote, than voters who do not pay tax."

"Not every single broke and unemployed person needs a job, some need customers."

"A reputation for money is almost as negotiable as money itself."

"Capitalism is the most powerful tool for positive social change."

"Major policy reform in the petroleum sector. Under the new Hydrocarbon Exploration Licensing Policy, there will be pricing and marketing freedom and a transparent revenue-sharing methodology. This will eliminate many layers of bureaucratic controls."

"In two years, we have managed to overcome the odds and register an impressive economic performance."

"India is undergoing a profound social and economic change. A billion of its citizens are already politically empowered. My dream is to economically empower them through many social and economic transformations."

"The economy of a novelist is a little like that of a careful housewife who is unwilling to throw away anything that might perhaps serve its turn."
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"Wealth is not without its advantages and the case to the contrary, although it has often been made, has never proved widely persuasive."


"Much literary criticism comes from people for whom extreme specialization is a cover for either grave cerebral inadequacy or terminal laziness, the latter being a much cherished aspect of academic freedom."


"Economics is a subject profoundly conducive to cliche, resonant with boredom. On few topics is an American audience so practiced in turning off its ears and minds. And none can say that the response is ill advised."


"If wrinkles must be written upon our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should never grow old."


"By all but the pathologically romantic, it is now recognized that this is not the age of the small man."
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