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• Anyway that's a large part of what economics is - people arbitrarily, or as a matter of taste, assigning numerical values to…
• You can only kill disappointment with a new try.
• One of the chief features of incompetence was an inability to see it in oneself.
• You could never teach other people anything that mattered. The important things they had to learn for themselves, almost always by making…
• Look at the pattern this seashell makes. The dappled whorl, curving inward to infinity. That's the shape of the universe itself. There's…
• When it comes to the environment, the invisible hand never picks up the check.
• The vaunted experience of age was perhaps only a matter of wounds and scarring -- that young minds to old minds might…
• It is always the teacher who must learn the most... or else nothing real has happened in the exchange.
• Atoms have a nucleus, made of protons and neutrons bound together. Around this nucleus shells of electrons spin, and each shell is…
• The minimum that most minimalists want leaves in place just the institutions who protect their interests. That's libertarians for you - anarchists…
• That's libertarians for you - anarchists who want police protection from their slaves.
• Economics was like psychology, a pseudoscience trying to hide that fact with intense theoretical hyperelaboration. And gross domestic product was one of…

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