The biggest problem is not to let people accept new ideas, but to let them forget the old ones.
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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.John Maynard
Worldly wisdom teaches that it is better for the reputation to fail conventionally than to succeed unconventionally
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Leninism is a combination of two things which Europeans have kept for some centuries in different compartments of their soul religion and business
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