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The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping the old ones, which ramify, for those brought up as most of us have been, into every corner of our minds.
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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
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The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward.
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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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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 any intellectual influence, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist.
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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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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 and religion.
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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.
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A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind.
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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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