The entire economy of the Western world is built on things that cause cancer.
—From the 1985 movie "Bliss
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There are 10^11 stars in the galaxy. That used to be a huge number. But it's only a hundred billion. It's less than the national deficit! We used to call them astronomical numbers. Now we should call them economical numbers.
—Richard Feynman
In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the next meal would come from.
—Peter Drucker
An economist is a surgeon with an excellent scalpel and a rough-edged lancet, who operates beautifully on the dead and tortures the living.
—Nicholas Chamfort
Socialism failed because it couldn't tell the economic truth; capitalism may fail because it couldn't tell the ecological truth.
—Lester Brown
An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today.
—Laurence J. Peter
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