"Men substitute words for reality and then argue about the words."

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— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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— Walter E. Williams

Economics1936–2020

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— Lloyd Kenyon

1696

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"Conventional wisdom notwithstanding, there is no reason either in football or in poetry why the two should not meet in a man's life if he has the weight and cares about the words."

— Archibald MacLeish

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