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“The best way to insure against unemployment is to have no unemployment. ... Idlers at the top make idlers at the bottom.”
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- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.60
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 30d5330ad7fe6cc9b02f4c844a7060de47de7804a5ac32461ee0733e810e7553
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