"Wish not so much to live long as to live well." Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanack
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"The mark of a great historical event is that it changes people or, more precisely, the way they think, so that they are never quite the same again." John Kenneth Galbraith, The Liberal Hour
"what Milton Friedman called TANSTAAFL – 'There ain’t no such thing as a free lunch.'" William C. Mitchell and Randy T. Simmons, Beyond Politics: Markets, Welfare, and the Failure of Bureaucracy
"Sam Spade: Ten thousand? We were talking about a lot more money than this. Kasper Gutman: Yes, sir, we were, but this is genuine coin of the realm. With a dollar of this, you can buy ten dollars of talk." The Maltese Falcon
"The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid." G.K. Chesterton in his Autobiography, quoted in Dale Ahlquist and Peter Floriani Chesterton University Student Handbook
"And they came with haste, and found Mary, and Joseph, and the babe lying in a manger." Luke 2:16