Arthur F. Burns Quotes

• Spontaneity has its time and its place.

  Arthur F. Burns

  Spontaneity

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• We all know it's brutal up there at the front, especially those of us at the rear.

  Arthur F. Burns

  Brutal, Knows, Fronts

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• My efforts to prevent closing of the gold window-working through Connally, Volcker, and Shultz-do not seem to have succeeded. The gold window may have to be closed tomorrow because we now have a government that is incapable, not only of constructive leadership, but of any action at all. What a tragedy for mankind!

  Arthur F. Burns

  Government, Effort, Political

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• As you take leave of [your school], as you graduate into a new life of the mind, may each of you ask yourself this: What am I doing to increase the sum hope of the world? ... What am I doing to teach someone else what I have learned?

  Arthur F. Burns

  School, Mind, May

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