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A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind.

Opinions

3.9 · 42 votes

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Americans are apt to be unduly interested in discovering what average opinion believes average opinion to be...

America

3.5 · 30 votes · 119 reads

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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.

Greed

3.0 · 46 votes

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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.

Conservatives

3.4 · 61 votes · 124 reads

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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.

Economy

3.8 · 58 votes

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John Maynard Keynes

Nature
In the long run we are all dead.
3.8 · 50 votes · 89 reads
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Society
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.
4.6 · 51 votes · 43 reads
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Thought and Reason
It is ideas, not vested interests, which are dangerous for good or evil.
5.0 · 31 votes · 85 reads
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Virtues
Nothing mattered except states of mind, chiefly our own.
3.4 · 16 votes · 192 reads
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Feelings
Only with absolute fearlessness can we slay the dragons of mediocrity that invade our gardens.
4.9 · 44 votes · 63 reads
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Society
The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward.
4.1 · 36 votes · 10 reads
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Society
The day is not far off when the economic problem will take the back seat where it belongs, and the arena of the heart and the head will be occupied or reoccupied, by our real problems - the problems of life and of human relations, of creation and behavior
4.8 · 60 votes · 52 reads
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Government and Politics
The decadent international but individualistic capitalism in the hands of which we found ourselves after the war is not a success. It is not intelligent. It is not beautiful. It is not just. It is not virtuous. And it doesn't deliver the goods.
4.4 · 34 votes · 105 reads
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Thought and Reason
The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping from the old ones, which ramify, for those brought up as most of us have been, into every corner of our minds.
3.5 · 6 votes · 177 reads
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Thought and Reason
The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is commonly understood. Indeed the world is ruled by little else. Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from an
3.8 · 21 votes · 166 reads
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Society
The importance of money flows from it being a link between the present and the future.
4.1 · 18 votes · 147 reads
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Thought and Reason
Words ought to be a little wild for they are the assaults of thought on the unthinking.
3.3 · 9 votes · 37 reads
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