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Why does a public discussion of economic policy so often show the abysmal ignorance of the participants? — Robert Solow
The absolute ruler may be a Nero, but he is sometimes a Titus or Marc Aurelius; the people is often Nero, but never Marc Aurelius. — Antoine Rivarol
Measures are too often decided, not according to the rules of justice and the rights of the minor party, but by the superior force of… — James Madison
The size of the lie is a definite factor in causing it to be believed, for the vast masses of the nation are in the… — Adolf Hitler
The analyses ... often become too competent to be comprehensible... — Unknown Author
Hume develops his arguments by a series of models. He doesn't call them models in the pretentious way in which we envelope, very often, pure… — Lionel Robbins, Baron Robbins
...course titles and even course descriptions often fail to reveal what is actually taught (much less learned)... — Unknown Author
It is however always important to remember that the ability to see things in their correct perspective may be, and often is, divorced from the… — Joseph A. Schumpeter
...it is distressing how often one can guess the answer given to an economic question merely by knowing who asks it. — George Stigler
...the discipline of economics has yet to get over its childish passion for mathematics and for purely theoretical and often highly ideological speculation, at the… — Thomas Piketty
I've been busy for years, buying land, often under pseudonyms, and planting trees on it. All the money is going into it when I die..… — Felix Dennis
Earlier in this century, philanthropy often flowed from the wills of dead industrialists. In recent decades, it's as likely to have come from a very… — Michael Milken
Opportunism is self interest seeking with guile often involving subtle forms of deceit, especially calculated efforts to mislead, distort, disguise, obfuscate, or otherwise confuse. This… — Unknown Author
The desire to achieve grand utopian plans often poses a grave threat to freedom — Margaret Thatcher
We're all brilliant at something. I discovered my powers when I was four years old. When you're young you're more in touch with your real… — Uri Geller
Scratch a pessimist and you will often find a defender of privilege. — William Beveridge
It is often sadly remarked that the bad economists present their errors to the public better than the good economists present their truths. It is… — Henry Hazlitt
Why, when the economist gives advice to his society, is he so often cooly ignored? He never ceases to preach free trade, and protectionism is… — George Stigler
Why am I doing the work I'm doing? Why am I friends with this person? Am I living the best life I possibly can? Questions… — Joseph Gordon-Levitt
The very wealthy and the very famous have a much closer affinity with the indigent street person than with the rest of us. There's the… — Drew Pinsky
You often get a better hold upon a problem by going away from it for a time and dismissing it from your mind altogether. — Unknown Author
Policy decisions on climate change are being deliberated every day by those without full knowledge of the science, and often with intentional misinformation spawned by… — James Hansen
A democratic form of government, a democratic way of life, presupposes free public education over a long period; it presupposes also an education for personal… — Eleanor Roosevelt
The paradox of American democracy has been that its slogan of equal opportunity has meant, often, equal opportunity to get power over your fellows. — Mary Parker Follett
It is one of the evils of democratical governments, that the people, not always seeing and frequently misled, must often feel before they can act. — George Washington

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