"Teach a parrot the terms 'supply and demand' and you've got an economist."
"You can make even a parrot into a learned political economist - all he must learn are the two words "supply" and "demand.""
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Source: Thomas Carlyle (1841). “On heroes, hero-worship, & the heroic in history: six lectures ; reported, with emendations and additions”, p.135
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