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Equilibrium is a figment of the human imagination.

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If we saw tomorrow's newspaper today, tomorrow would never happen.

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The only religion that still demands human sacrifice is nationalism.

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The process of consumption... is the final act in the economic drama

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The most fundamental form of integrative power is the power of love.

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The gene is a wonderful teacher. It is, however, a very poor learner.

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[Peace praxis is] a peace process that deals with conflict integratively.

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DNA has been aptly described as the first three-dimensional Xerox machine.

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Humble, honest, ignorance is one of the finest flowers of the human spirit

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Mathematics brought rigor to Economics. Unfortunately, it also brought mortis

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We should always bear in mind that numbers represent a simplification of reality.

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Theories without facts may be barren, but facts without theories are meaningless.

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Know this: though love is weak and hate is strong, Yet hate is short, and love is very long.

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A world of unseen dictatorship is conceivable, still using the forms of democratic government.

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One reason why the progressive state is 'cheerful' is that social conflict is diminished by it.

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[The question for the behavioral disciplines is simply] what is better, and how do we get there?

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[The law of evolution states that] complexity increases in terms of differentiation and structure.

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The greater the penalties laid on sellers in the black market... the higher the black market price.

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Private property is a means, and neither its abolition nor its unrestricted right should be an end in itself

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Anyone who believes exponential growth can go on forever in a finite world is either a madman or an economist.

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The use of isoquants to describe the production function did not develop to any great extent until the thirties.

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Production functions involving only land, labor and capital... never work and never explain economic development.

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The trouble with taxonomic boxes is... that that they tend to be empty, however beautiful they are on the outside.

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Economists and technologists bring the "bits", but it requires the social scientists and humanists to bring the "wits."

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Mathematicians themselves set up standards of generality and elegance in their exposition which are a bar to understand.

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We all, or nearly all, consent If wages rise by ten per cent It puts a choice before the nation Of unemployment or inflation.

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Consumption is the death of capital, and the only valid arguments in favor of consumption are arguments in favor of death itself.

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Physicists can only talk to other physicists and economists to economists... sociologists often cannot even understand each other.

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[if the automobile is replaced by public trans port] the social structure of cities will revert to the ecological pattern of 1880.

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The right to have children should be a marketable commodity, bought and traded by individuals but absolutely limited by the state.

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