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"In everything well known something worthy of thought still lurks."

— Martin Heidegger

Philosophy1889–1976

#knowledge

"When we read in Bharata's classical book of the twenty-two microtones in ancient Indian octaves, of innumerable scales and modes, and of seventeen melodic patterns and their pentatonic and hexatonic a…"

— Curt Sachs

Music1881–1959

#books

"Economic freedom is extraordinarily important. It’s the freedom to do with your resources what you believe you should do. My dream has always been to make poor people rich, not rich people poor."

— Arthur Laffer

Economics1940

#freedom

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— John D. Rockefeller

Business1839–1937

#Human Nature