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I am sure that the power of vested interests is vastly exaggerated compared with the gradual encroachment of ideas.

John Maynard Keynes

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Nothing mattered except states of mind, chiefly our own.
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The atomic hypothesis which had worked so splendidly in Physics breaks down in Psychics.
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Worldly wisdom teaches that it is better for reputation to fail conventionally than to succeed unconventionally.
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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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