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"However, it may occur that we will find ourselves using a variety of fuel sources to give us the energy we need support our lifestyles and boost our economy."

"In capitalist nation, all is decided by money."

"Our economy is creating jobs and giving businesses the conditions they need to invest and succeed."

"With a strong domestic economy, low national unemployment at 5 percent, and increasing retail sales, the picture should look rosy. But one look at the trade deficit changes all of that."

"After graduating in engineering I went to the University of Kansas to get an MA in economics as a vehicle for allowing me to decide if I wanted to continue in economics."

"The rest is a mere matter of detail, to be settled with judgment, discretion, and caution."
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"Labor wants pride and joy in doing good work, a sense of making or doing something beautiful or useful - to be treated with dignity and respect as brother and sister."


"It is always sound business to take any obtainable net gain, at any cost and at any risk to the rest of the community."


"Born in iniquity and conceived in sin, the spirit of nationalism has never ceased to bend human institutions to the service of dissension and distress."


"The addiction to sports, therefore, in a peculiar degree marks an arrested development in man's moral nature."


"In point of substantial merit the law school belongs in the modern university no more than a school of fencing or dancing."


"The basis on which good repute in any highly organized industrial community ultimately rests is pecuniary strength; and the means of showing pecuniary strength, and so of gaining or retaining a good name, are leisure and a conspicuous consumption of goods."


"In itself and in its consequences the life of leisure is beautiful and ennobling in all civilised men's eyes."
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