"Teach a parrot the terms 'supply and demand' and you've got an economist."
"Silence, the great Empire of Silence: higher than all stars; deeper than the Kingdom of Death! It alone is great; all else is small."
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Source: Thomas Carlyle (1864). “Sartor Resartus”, p.140
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