“The master-economist must possess a rare combination of gifts .... He must be mathematician, historian, statesman, philosopher—in some degree. He must understand symbols and speak in words. He must contemplate the particular, in terms of the general, and touch abstract and concrete in the same flight of thought. He must study the present in the light of the past for the purposes of the future. No part of man's nature or his institutions must be entirely outside his regard. He must be purposeful and disinterested in a simultaneous mood, as aloof and incorruptible as an artist, yet sometimes as near to earth as a politician.”
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“They are my fears of him, too. But who can hinder that which will be?”
― The Pilgrim's Progress
― The Pilgrim's Progress
“The political problem of mankind is to combine three things: economic efficiency, social justice and individual liberty.”
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“She had curiously thoughtful and attentive eyes; eyes that were very pretty and very good.”
― Great Expectations
― Great Expectations
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