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… is from pages 182 of my late Nobel-laureate colleague Jim Buchanan [2]‘s 1990 essay “Socialism Is Dead but Leviathan Lives On [3],” as this essay is reprinted in volume 1 of The Collected Works of James M. Buchanan: The Logical Foundations of Constitutional Liberty [4]:
It is sometimes too easy to overlook the simple principles in our headlong rush to get to the complexities.