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Marxism is the opium of the Marxists.


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The point of studying economics is so as not to be fooled by economists.



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Economic theorists should not make such a production about taking a rabbit out of a hat after having put the rabbit into the hat in full view of the audience.



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The nature of technology depends very much upon what the public can be induced to put up with.



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Unequal distribution of income is an excessively uneconomic method of getting the necessary saving done.



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science progresses by trial and error, and when it is forbidden to admit error there can be no progress.





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