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Again, most of the chief distinctions marked by economic terms are differences not of kind but of degree. ↗

— Alfred Marshall

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The state can be and has often been in the course of history the main source of mischief and disaster. ↗

— Ludwig von Mises

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Our chief defect is that we are more given to talking about things than to doing them. ↗

— Jawaharlal Nehru

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I think there was a revolution in poetry, associated chiefly with Eliot and Pound; but maybe it is of the nature of revolutions or of the nature of history that their innovations should later come to look trivial or indistinguishable from technical tricks. ↗

— Howard Nemerov

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'Tis not enough your counsel still be true; Blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do. ↗

— Alexander Pope

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The chief strategist of an organization has to be the leader - the CEO. ↗

— Michael Porter

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Dr. Johnson has said that the chief glory of a country arises from its authors. But then that is only as they are oracles of wisdom; unless they teach virtue, they are more worthy of a halter than of the laurel. ↗

— Jane Porter

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At present, financial crises occur, chiefly because the paper currency is redeemable in gold only. ↗

— John Buchanan Robinson

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Balancing a nominal budget will solve nothing, and attempting to achieve such a spurious balance will produce much mischief. ↗

— William Vickrey

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Every man is his own chief enemy. ↗

— Anacharsis

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