Adam Smith’s huge failure was the fact that he did not foresee the industrial revolution.
P. J. O'ROURKEThe young are adept at learning, but even more adept at avoiding it.
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Woodstock had a tremendous impact on American artistic life.
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When I’m in the car, I want the only one shouting to be me.
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Finland is a rich country. What have they got? They got Nokia phones and plywood. How’d they get so rich? Because they’re free.
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Agriculture is a business that has been up to its bib overalls in politics since the first Thanksgiving dinner kickback to the Indians for subsidizing Pilgrim maize production with fish head fertilizer grants.
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The best and brightest don’t go into politics. The best and brightest are at Goldman Sachs.
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Staying married may have long-term benefits. You can elicit much more sympathy from friends over a bad marriage than you ever can from a good divorce.
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Political leaders are expert at saying nothing.
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You’re stupid,’ is not something even his most severe critics usually say to President Barack Obama.
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No doubt the ridiculous politicians are right to like politics. They have found careers in which success can be achieved by being ridiculous. Imagine Jimmy Carter or George W. Bush rising to the top of any other profession.
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Once you’ve built the big machinery of political power, remember you won’t always be the one to run it.
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No industry in living memory has collapsed faster than daily print journalism.
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If you are young and you drink a great deal it will spoil your health, slow your mind, make you fat – in other words, turn you into an adult.
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There is a simple rule here, a rule of legislation, a rule of business, a rule of life: beyond a certain point, complexity is fraud. You can apply that rule to left-wing social programs, but you can also apply that rule to credit derivatives, hedge funds, all the rest of it.
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When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.
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Nobody is making Americans buy Chinese goods.
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