Simone de Beauvoir
Philosopher, Writer
"The ballot box is a most inadequate mechanism of change."
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Mechanism
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Herbert Simon
Economist
"No one has characterized market mechanisms better than Friedrich von Hayek"
L. Ron Hubbard
Author
"Truth is an all-freeing mechanism."
Gene Wolfe
Author
"Hope is a psychological mechanism unaffected by external realities."
Cornel West
Philosopher
"The question is really how do we think seriously about this mechanism called a market. It ought to be determining not values but prices."
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"Simple mechanisms do not love."
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