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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

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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

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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

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Socialism failed because it couldn't tell the economic truth; capitalism may fail because it couldn't tell the ecological truth.

—Lester Brown

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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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Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists.

—John Kenneth Galbraith

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There can be no real individual freedom in the presence of economic insecurity.

—Chester Bowles

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Acts of sacrifice and decency without regard to what's in it for you create ripple effects. Ones that lift up families and communities, that spread opportunity and boost our economy.

—Barack Obama

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He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.

—Unknown

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Property has its duties as well as its rights.

—Unknown

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Be eager to fulfill the smallest duty and flee from transgression for one duty includes another and one transgression induces another transgression.

—Thomas Paine

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There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.

—Thomas Brummond

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There is no duty we so much underrate as the as the duty of being happy.

—Robert Louis Stevenson

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Duty then is the sublimest word in the English language. You should do your duty in all things. You can never do more, you should never wish to do less.

—Robert Louis Stevenson

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The first duty of love is to listen.

—Robert E. Lee

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