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Mission with LeMay: My Story (1965), p. 565.
“The more necessary a thing is for living beings, the more easily it is found and the cheaper it is; the less necessary it is, the rarer and dearer it is.”
Source: Guide for the Perplexed (c. 1190), Part III, Ch.12
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