"Teach a parrot the terms 'supply and demand' and you've got an economist."
"At worst, is not this an unjust world, full of nothing but beasts of prey, four-footed or two-footed?"
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Source: Thomas Carlyle, Chris Vanden Bossche (2002). “Historical Essays”, p.68, Univ of California Press
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