"I have as much chance of becoming Prime Minister as of being decapitated by a frisbee or of finding Elvis."
"I don't believe that economic equality is possible; indeed some measure of inequality is essential for the spirit of envy and keeping up with the Joneses that is, like greed, a valuable spur to economic activity."
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