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Adam Smith Philosopher, Economist
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"To expect, indeed, that the freedom of trade should ever be entirely restored in Great Britain, is as absurd as to expect that an Oceana or Utopia should never be established in it."

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Thomas Huxley Biologist, Anthropologist
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"And when you cannot prove that people are wrong, but only that they are absurd, the best course is to let them alone."

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Tony Robbins Author, Life Coach
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"What I really like is changing a life, helping someone change a business, change a family. In the beginning, it was because I was willing to only be paid for a result. I wasn't a therapist; there were no such thing as coaches back then. You had to be a therapist and it had to be paid for by somebody, and I saw what therapists did and I was honestly disturbed by it, because I see people in therapy for five years and I was, like, "This is absurd.""

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