"The Wealth of Nations may not be an original book, but it is unquestionably a masterpiece."

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Source : Robert L. Heilbroner (1955). “The Great Economists: Their Lives and Their Conceptions of the World”

Robert Heilbroner

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“Looking for a gem, we are sometimes dumb enough to try to hold on to a lump of coal, convinced that it will turn into a diamond in our lifetime... but all it does it get sh*t all over you until you burn it and use the energy for something else.”
“The truly civilized man has no enemies.”

Source : "The Smoke and the Flame: A Study in the Development of Religion". Book by Charles Fletcher Dole, 1902.
“You kind of figure out what you're doing as you go along.”

Source : Source: www.motherjones.com
“If a man does away with his traditional way of living and throws away his good customs, he had better first make certain that he has something of value to replace them.”
“Being a Georgia author is a rather specious dignity, on the same order as, for the pig, being a Talmadge ham.”
“Choose your agent as carefully as you would choose your accountant or lawyer. Or dentist.”
“Every artist feels alone and isolated, Friends are very important in terms of all sorts of definitions of oneself. They tell you what you are and what they are aside from the intellectual aspects.”
“It is when you are asking about something that you realize you yourself have survived it, and so you must carry it, or fashion it into a thing that carries itself,”

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