I don’t pretend to understand the Universe – it’s a great deal bigger than I am.

- Thomas Carlyle

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Thomas Carlyle coined the phrase “the dismal science” to describe economics, which he believed focused too much on the material aspects of life and not enough on the moral and spiritual dimensions.

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