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  • Added to these ingredients from nature is "an even more extraordinary miracle: the configuration of creative human energies - millions of tiny know-hows configuring naturally and spontaneously (responding to) human necessity and desire and in the absence of any human master-minding."

    Market Efficiency Hokum 2007

  • Added to these ingredients from nature is "an even more extraordinary miracle: the configuration of creative human energies - millions of tiny know-hows configuring naturally and spontaneously (responding to) human necessity and desire and in the absence of any human master-minding."

    Market Efficiency Hokum 2007

  • But to these miracles which manifest themselves in Nature an even more extraordinary miracle has been added: the configuration of creative human energies—millions of tiny know-hows configurating naturally and spontaneously in response to human necessity and desire and in the absence of any human master-minding!

    Road Running 2006

  • But to these miracles which manifest themselves in Nature an even more extraordinary miracle has been added: the configuration of creative human energies—millions of tiny know-hows configurating naturally and spontaneously in response to human necessity and desire and in the absence of any human master-minding!

    I, Pencil « Ewan's Corner 2006

  • Man can no more direct these millions of know-hows to bring me into being than he can put molecules together to create a tree.

    I, Pencil « Ewan's Corner 2006

  • Man can no more direct these millions of know-hows to bring me into being than he can put molecules together to create a tree.

    Road Running 2006

  • Many thanks to Danger who feeds my brain each month with the latest and greatest know-hows in the running world.

    chicagojo Diary Entry chicagojo 2005

  • In an effort to consolidate the useful know-hows into something like an RMS FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions)

    Site Home tmutrej 2010

  • Using the Internet as the main medium, the website continues to offer free information and practical know-hows on every wheelchair it has featured.

    WebWire | Recent Headlines 2010

  • For, if one is aware that these know-hows will naturally, yes, automatically, arrange themselves into creative and productive patterns in response to human necessity and demand - that is, in the absence of governmental or any other coercive masterminding - then one will possess an absolutely essential ingredient for freedom: a faith in free men.

    Atlas Shrugs 2009

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