"Teach a parrot the terms 'supply and demand' and you've got an economist."
"Instead of saying that man is the creature of circumstance, it would be nearer the mark to say that man is the architect of circumstance."
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Source: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Nathan Haskell Dole, George Henry Lewes, Thomas Carlyle, John Storer Cobb (1902*). “The Works of Goethe”
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