It is an economic axiom as old as the hills that goods and services can be paid for only with goods and services.

Albert J. Nock
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  1. It is an economic axiom as old as the hills that goods and services can be paid for only with goods and services.

  2. Diligent as one must be in learning, one must be as diligent in forgetting; otherwise the process is one of pedantry, not culture.

  3. The university's business is the conservation of useless knowledge; and what the university itself apparently fails to see is that this enterprise is not only noble but indispensable as well, that society can not exist unless it goes on.

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