"Progress toward a more abundant material life does not come like manna from heaven, however. My message certainly is not one of complacency. The ultimate resource is people β especially skilled, spirited, and hopeful young people endowed with liberty β who will exert their wills and imaginations for their own benefit and inevitably benefit the rest of us as well."
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"The State of Humanity: Steadily Improving," Cato Institute Policy Report, September/October 1995
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Julian Simon
Julian Lincoln Simon (12 February 1932 β 8 February 1998) was a professor of business administration at the University of Maryland and a Senior Fellow at the Cato Institute at the time of his death, after previously serving as a longtime business professor at the .
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