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The inscrutability [of economics] is perhaps not unintentional. It gives endless employment to dialecticians who otherwise might become public charges or, at very worst, swindlers and tricksters.
Jack Vance
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Jack Vance
Age: 96 †
Born: 1916
Born: August 28
Died: 2013
Died: May 26
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
San Francisco County
California
John Holbrook Vance
Jack Vance
John H. Vance
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Mischief moves somewhere near and I must blast it with my magic.
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A man is like a rope: both break at a definite strain....The solution is not splicing the rope it's lessening the tension.
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Count me not your friend but the enemy of your enemies.
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