"By competition the total amount of supply is increased, and by increase of the supply a competition in the sale ensues, and this enables the consumer to buy at lower rates. Of all human powers operating on the affairs of mankind, none is greater than that of competition."

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Source : Henry Clay (1857). “The speeches of Henry Clay”, p.469

Henry Clay

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“Words mean more than we mean to express when we use them: so a whole book ought to mean a great deal more than the writer meant.”
“How unconvincing. Try again.”
“My problems were not what ended Creed.”
“I asked a thief to steal me a peach: He turned up his eyes. I asked a lithe lady to lie her down: Holy and meek, she cries. As soon as I went An angel came. He winked at the thief And smiled at the dame- And without one word spoke Had a peach from the tree, And 'twixt earnest and joke Enjoyed the lady.”
“He felt now that he was not simply close to her, but that he did not know where he ended and she began.”
“Celebrated in the Bob Dylan ballad 'Joey,' Crazy Joe Gallo was a charismatic beatnik gangster whose forays into Greenwich Village in the 1960s inspired his bloody revolution against the Mafia.”

Source : "Gangster Chic: Joey Gallo" by Tom Folsom, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 17, 2009.
“When I'm 80 years old, I don't know what I want to be remembered for.”
“Whenever we dig down into the achievements of a creative artist, we invariably trace them to the beginning of all beginnings: labour.”

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