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If you sell me a car, we have perhaps made a good bargain for ourselves. But there are effects of this transaction on others, which we do not take into account. There is more pollution, the price of gas goes up, there is more congestion.

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Noam Chomsky
Age: 95
Born: 1928
Born: December 7
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