[Reader-list] two super quotes

[Yazad Jal]

Scientific research sooner or later, but inevitably, encounters something ultimately given that it cannot trace back to something else of which it would appear as the regular or necessary derivative.  Scientific progress consists in pushing further back this ultimately given.
 -- Ludwig von Mises

The sort of dependence that results from exchange, i.e., from commercial transactions, is a reciprocal dependence.  We cannot be dependent upon a foreigner without his being dependent on us.  Now, this is what constitutes the very essence of society.  To sever natural interrelations is not to make oneself independent, but to isolate oneself completely.
 -- Frederic Bastiat


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