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The secret to economic growth lay in the fact that that each generation attacked Nature not only with its own energies and resources, but with the heritage of equipment accumulated by its forebears.

— Robert Heilbroner The Worldly Philosophers (1953)

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He who enlists a man's mind wields a power even greater than the sword or the scepter.

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