A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNESEducation: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent.
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For my own part, I believe that there is social and psychological justification for significant inequalities of incomes and wealth.
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Should government refrain from regulation (taxation), the worthlessness of the money becomes apparent and the fraud can no longer be concealed.
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The engine which drives enterprise is not thrift, but profit.
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Like all his type, Newton was wholly aloof from women.
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I am sure that the power of vested interests is vastly exaggerated compared with the gradual encroachment of ideas.
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Ideas shape the course of history.
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The idea behind stamped money is sound.
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When the facts change, I change my mind.
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Logic , like lyrical poetry , is no employment for the middle-aged.
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The power to become habituated to his surroundings is a marked characteristic of mankind.
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Nothing mattered except states of mind, chiefly our own.
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One’s knowledge and experience are definitely limited and there are seldom more than two or three enterprises at any given time in which I personally feel myself entitled to put full confidence.
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Once we allow ourselves to be disobedient to the test of an accountant’s profit, we have begun to change our civilization.
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I’d rather be vaguely right than precisely wrong.
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When somebody persuades me I am wrong, I change my mind.
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