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Economics is a slave-driver. No one has free time no one has any leisure.

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James Hillman
Age: 85 †
Born: 1926
Born: April 12
Died: 2011
Died: October 27
Non-Fiction Writer
Philosopher
Psychologist
Atlantic City
New Jersey
Economics
Slave
Free
Time
Driver
Drivers
Leisure

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