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| A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind |
| History; Mind; Opinions; Study |
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| Americans are apt to be unduly interested in discovering what average opinion believes average opinion to be... |
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| But this long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead. |
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| By a continuing process of inflation, government can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens. |
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| Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone. |
| Belief; Capitalism |
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| Education is the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent |
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| For at least another hundred years we must pretend to ourselves and to every one that fair is foul and foul is fair; for foul is useful and fair is not. Avarice and usury and precaution must be our gods for a little longer still. |
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| He [Clemenceau] had one illusion - France; and one disillusion - mankind. |
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| I do not know which makes a man more conservative to know nothing but the present, or nothing but the past |
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| I work for a Government I despise for ends I think criminal. |
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| If economists could manage to get themselves thought of as humble, competent people on a level with dentists, that would be splendid. |
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| If I owe you a pound, I have a problem; but if I owe you a million, the problem is yours. |
| Debt; Money; Problems |
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| In truth, the gold standard is already a barbarous relic |
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| It is better that a man should tyrannize over his bank balance than over his fellow citizens |
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| It is better that a man should tyrannize over his bank balance than over his fellow-citizens and whilst the former is sometimes denounced as being but a means to the latter, sometimes at least it is an alternative. |
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| It is better to be roughly right than precisely wrong |
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| It is ideas, not vested interests, which are dangerous for good or evil. |
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