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There are men regarded today as brilliant economists, who deprecate saving and recommend squandering on a national scale as the way of economic salvation; and when anyone points to what the consequences of these policies will be in the long run, they reply flippantly, as might the prodigal son of a warning father: "In the long run we are all dead." And such shallow wisecracks pass as devastating epigrams and the ripest wisdom.
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― Economics in One Lesson
― Economics in One Lesson
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Daddy had a lot to say about white being able to start first in chess, with black being "subservient." He wanted his gravestone to read STRONG OPINIONS, but fortunately the actuarial tables said he had at least another forty years to go. Daddy was supposed to be so far left that it was hard to "even imagine it." Vera tried anyway. In her mind, she walked down the block, then turned left, then turned left again, and then turned left again, and then once again, but she ended up where she had start
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― Vera, or Faith
― Vera, or Faith
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