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The ideal situation for any state is to experience sharp economic growth while its rivals' economies grow slowly or hardly at all.
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The Soviet Union and its empire disappeared in large part because its smokestack economy could no longer keep up with the technological progress of the world's major economic powers.
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States care about relative wealth, because economic might is the foundation of military might.
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In England, the profession of the law is that which seems to hold out the strongest attraction to talent, from the circumstance, that in it ability, coupled with exertion, even though unaided by patronage, cannot fail of obtaining reward.
Charles Babbage
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December 14, 1947
(age 77)
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