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Age is something only in your head or a stereotype. Age means nothing when you are passionate about something.
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In any war, the first casualty is common sense, and the second is free and open discussion.


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The purpose of education is to keep a culture from being drowned in senseless repetitions, each of which claims to offer a new insight.
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To talk about planning an economic system is to talk in old terms, and I find myself sometimes having to teach Westers about what the market really means.
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Our object in these remarks has been not only to account for the slow progress which has as yet been made by Political Economy, and to suggest means by which its advancement may be accelerated, but also to warn the reader of the nature of the following Treatise.
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Reading is becoming a kind of specialist activity, and that strikes terror into the heart of people who love reading.
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