"A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind."
― John Maynard Keynes
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History
More From John Maynard Keynes
- "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."
- "By a continuing process of inflation, government can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens."
- "Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent."
More In History
- "I had my boy in Boston on Easter Sunday. That kills me, from a sports perspective. He’s a Boston baby and I’m a New York guy."― Kevin James
- "History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies."― Alexis de Tocqueville
- "That brings me to Dennis Ritchie. Our collaboration has been a thing of beauty."― Ken Thompson