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The animals that depend on instinct have an inherent knowledge of

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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All men should strive to learn before they die, what they are running from, and to, and why. – James Thurber

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Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man. – James Thurber

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We are here and it is now. Further than that, all human knowledge is moonshine. – H. L. Mencken

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Exclusively oral cultures are unencumbered by dead knowledge, dead facts. Libraries, on the other hand, are full of them. – Huston Smith

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