Output Quotes - Page 8

• Tax increases appear to have a very large sustained and highly significant negative impact on output.

  Christina Romer

  Impact, Negative, Significant

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• Everything I've always done has been for the sole purpose of increasing my lovemaking output. A lot of guys won't admit that, but I do. I just want to make love.

  Rick Fox

  Guy, Making Love, Purpose

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• All, the intelligent and stupid, diligent and idle, have been swept along on a current of increased output that, in the usual case, owed nothing whatever to their efforts.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Stupid, Intelligent, Effort

  John Kenneth Galbraith (2007). “The New Industrial State”, p.431, Princeton University Press

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• During the 1960s, and again in the 1970s, growth in manufacturing productivity in the United Kingdom was the lowest of all the seven major industrial countries in the world. During the 1980s, our annual rate of growth of output per head in manufacturing has been the highest of all the seven major industrial countries.

  Nigel Lawson

  Country, Growth, World

  "The Economic Background". Speech in the House of Commons, hansard.millbanksystems.com. March 17, 1987.

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• As for comics, one has only to turn to the characteristic output of Marvel Comics, for the period from about 1961 to about 1975, to find not an expression of base and cynical impulses but of good, old-fashioned liberal humanism of a kind that may strike us today, God help us, as quaint, but which nevertheless appealed, in story after story, to ideals such as tolerance, technological optimism, and self-sacrifice for the benefit of others.

  Michael Chabon

  Sacrifice, Self, Expression

  Unpublished Letter of Complaint to The New York Review of Books,

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