"There is no mystery whatever — only inability to perceive the obvious."

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#anger

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— John Hicks

Economics1904–1989

#mind

"I therefore fearlessly challenge the verdict which this House, as representing a political, a commercial, a constitutional country, is to give on the question now brought before it; whether the princi…"

— Henry Temple

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