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If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.

—George Bernard Shaw

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About the time we think we can make ends meet, somebody moves the ends.

—Herbert Hoover

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Acts of sacrifice and decency without regard to what's in it for you create ripple effects. Ones that lift up families and communities, that spread opportunity and boost our economy.

—Barack Obama

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There can be no real individual freedom in the presence of economic insecurity.

—Chester Bowles

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Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists.

—John Kenneth Galbraith

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An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today.

—Laurence J. Peter

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Socialism failed because it couldn't tell the economic truth; capitalism may fail because it couldn't tell the ecological truth.

—Lester Brown

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An economist is a surgeon with an excellent scalpel and a rough-edged lancet, who operates beautifully on the dead and tortures the living.

—Nicholas Chamfort

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In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the next meal would come from.

—Peter Drucker

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There are 10^11 stars in the galaxy. That used to be a huge number. But it's only a hundred billion. It's less than the national deficit! We used to call them astronomical numbers. Now we should call them economical numbers.

—Richard Feynman

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The entire economy of the Western world is built on things that cause cancer.

—From the 1985 movie "Bliss

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A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing.

—Alexander Hamilton

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Unless we do change our whole way of thought about work, I do not think we shall ever escape from the appalling squirrel-cage of economic confusion in which we have been madly turning for the last three centuries or so, the cage in which we landed ourselves by acquiescing in a social system based upon envy and avarice.

—Dorothy L. Sayers

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