"Teach a parrot the terms 'supply and demand' and you've got an economist."
"Time is the silent, never-resting thing ... rolling, rushing on, swift, silent, like an all-embracing oceantide, on which we and all the universe swim."
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Source: Attributed to Thomas Carlyle in Patriotism: A Menace to Liberty, essay by Emma Goldman, chapter five of Anarchism and Other Essays, 1911.
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