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Practical men who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influence, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist.

Practical men who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influence, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist.
– John Maynard Keynes

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  6. The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones. – John Maynard Keynes
  7. By this means the government may secretly and unobserved, confiscate the wealth of the people, and not one man in a million will detect the theft. – John Maynard Keynes
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  12. The curious mind embraces science; the gifted and sensitive, the arts; the practical, business; the leftover becomes an economist – Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  13. Those who speak largely of the human condition are usually those most exempt from its oppressions – whether of sex, race, or servitude. – Adrienne Rich
  14. You can influence a whole plethora of things, and just as they can influence you then you can influence them. – Stephen Richards
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  23. Think about death being inevitable, and unpredictable, exempt from the law of averages. Everyone has a turn, and no one knows when. – Pawan Mishra
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  26. Nobody is exempt from the surprises of life! – Mehmet Murat ildan
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  28. Only themselves understand themselves and the like of themselves,As souls only understand souls. – Walt Whitman
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