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Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - October 19, 2026
An economist is a surgeon with an excellent scalpel and a rough-edged lancet, who operates beautifully on the dead and tortures the living.
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Nicholas Chamfort (1741 - 1794)  
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People care more about being thought to have taste than about being thought either good, clever or amiable.
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Samuel Butler (1835 - 1902)  
We don't see things as they are, we see things as we are.
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Anais Nin (1903 - 1977)  
In mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
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Johann von Neumann (1903 - 1957)  
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