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Man naturally desires, not only to be loved, but to be lovely; or to be that thing which is the natural and proper object of love.
Adam Smith
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Economics takes a while to learn, even if much of it is in a way quite simple. It is simple to be wrong as well as to be right, and it is none too easy to distinguish between them.
James Mirrlees
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No arbitrary regulation, no act of the legislature, can add anything to the capital of the country; it can only force it into artificial channels.
John Ramsay McCulloch
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