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-- Henry James Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
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-- George Bernard Shaw "People drag their progeny around with them like a ball and chain, like some terrible deadweight that hinders their every move - and that, as often as not, effectively winds up killing them." (Michel I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
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-- Winston Churchill The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
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The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I
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-- G. K. Chesterton You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
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- Bertrand Russell
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