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- Page after page of professional economic journals are filled with mathematical formulas leading the reader from sets of more or less plausible but entirely arbitrary…
- We move from more or less plausible but really arbitrary assumptions, to elegantly demonstrated but irrelevant conclusions.
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- After we have thought out everything carefully in advance and have sought and found without prejudice the most plausible plan, we must… — Carl von Clausewitz
- First impressions are often the truest, as we find (not infrequently) to our cost, when we have been wheedled out of them… — William Hazlitt
- I shall give a propagandist reason for starting the war, no matter whether it is plausible or not. The victor will not… — Adolf Hitler
- What could be more foolish than to base one's entire view of life on ideas that, however plausible at the time, now… — Francis Crick
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- Most important to any fake story is a plausible, realistic edge with a satirical twist that is topical. — Joey Skaggs
- As witnesses not of our intentions but of our conduct, we can be true or false, and the hypocrite's crime is that… — Hannah Arendt
- Let no man turn aside, ever so slightly, from the broad path of honour, on the plausible pretence that he is justified… — Charles Dickens