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"Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists." »John Kenneth Galbraith
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"Every moment that a man may be in want of employment, than such I hold him to be far better who is forced to labour for nothing." »Afghan
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"Men often oppose a thing merely because they have had no agency in planning it, or because it may have been planned by those whom they dislike." »Alexander Hamilton
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"Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment." »Thomas Jefferson
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"Chess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside an advertising agency." »Raymond Chandler
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"The vice-president of an advertising agency is a bit of executive fungus that forms on a desk that has been exposed to conference." »Fred Allen
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"War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel." »Niccolo Machiavelli
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"Liberty is to faction, what air is to fire, an ailment without which it instantly expires. But it could not be a less folly to abolish liberty, which is essential to political life, because it nourishes faction, than it would be to wish the annihilation of air, which is essential to animal life, because it imparts to fire its destructive agency." »James Madison, Federalist 10
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