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We love our lawyers

Bob Dudley, BP CEO, quoted by The Economist in ‘A shrunken giant’

MONEY is like muck, not good except it be spread.

Francis Bacon, quoted by The Economist in ‘Spreading the muck’

Jobs is a very abstract term

Governor Jerry Brown, quoted in ‘Bark if you don’t like the deficits’

The second incarnation of Mr Brown [as California’s Governor] … has been marked by a relentless pursuit of the possible and a serene neglect of everything else

The Economist in ‘Bark if you don’t like deficits’

Never try to discourage thinking, for you are sure to succeed.

Bertrand Russell in 'Ten Commandments for Living in a Healthy Democracy'

He added (redundantly) that the president was a “Washington insider”

The Economist in ‘No switch for Mitch’

A well-defined job is a job at risk.

Arnold Kling in ‘PSST: Patterns of Sustainable Specialization and Trade’

This makes it incumbent upon society to spread opportunity to all who can compete—shaking the national cornflake packet, as he perplexingly put it—and helping those who cannot

The Economist, referring to a Boris Johnson speech, in ‘Top of the class’

In fact, we can think of few more difficult jobs [Civil Liberties & Privacy Officer at the NSA] since the post of Staff Rabbi to the Spanish Inquisition

The Register in ‘The NSA's hiring - and they want a CIVIL LIBERTIES officer’

And we are supposed to be upset because the technology that makes [blogging] possible has cut down on the number of bowling leagues? That’s like condemning butterfly metamorphosis for decreasing the number of caterpillars.

“Scott Alexander” in ‘The anti-reactionary FAQ’