"The first thing you have to know is yourself. A man who knows himself can step outside himself and watch his own reactions like an observer."

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No very deep knowledge of economics is usually needed for grasping the immediate effects of a measure; but the task of economics is to foretell the remoter effects, and so to allow us to avoid such acts as attempt to remedy a present ill by sowing the seeds of a much greater ill for the future.

— Ludwig von Mises