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The animals that depend on instinct have an inherent knowledge of the laws of economics and of how to apply them Man, with his powers of reason, has reduced economics to the level of a farce which is at once funnier and more tragic than Tobacco Road. – James Thurber

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But what is all this fear of and opposition to Oblivion? What is the matter with the soft Darkness, the Dreamless Sleep? – James Thurber

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You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward. – James Thurber

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Its a na?ve domestic Burgundy without any breeding, but I think youll be amused by its presumption. – James Thurber

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We too, through lack of knowledge and of sufficiently mature reflection, mistook the visible outward appearance of the phenomenon for the phenomenon itself. – Leon Jouhaux

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A knowledge of the forces that rule society, of the causes that have produced its upheavals, and of societys resources for promoting healthy progress has become of vital concern to our civilization. – Wilhelm Dilthey

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The existence of inherent limits of experience in no way settles the question about the subordination of facts of the human world to our knowledge of matter. – Wilhelm Dilthey

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