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• "Madmen in authority, who hear voices in the air, are distilling their frenzy from some academic scribbler of a few years back."

  -- John Maynard Keynes

  [cf. Paul Babiak & Robert Hare, Snakes in Suits;
  Joel Bakan, The [Psychopathic] Corporation;
  David Owen, In Sickness & In Power, The Hubris Syndrome]

• "For Keynes, the government had to be prepared to act as the spender of last resort, just as the central bank acted as the lender of last resort."

  -- Sylvia Nasar

• "The emancipation of belief is the most formidable of the tasks of reform, the one on which all else depends."
  -- John Kenneth Galbraith

• "I know that you believe you understand what you think I said, but I am not sure you realize that what you think you heard is not what I meant."

  -- Alan Greenspan

• "Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made."

  -- Kant (Idea for a General History with a Cosmopolitan Purpose (1784), Proposition 6)

• "Those are my principles and if you don't like them, well, I have others."
  -- Groucho Marx

• "I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves."
  -- Wittgenstein

• "Wide is the gate and broad is the road that leadeth to destruction."
  -- Matthew 7:13

• "Don't worry about people stealing an idea. If it's original, you will have to ram it down their throats."
  -- Howard H. Aiken

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