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John Maynard Keynes

"Americans are apt to be unduly interested in discovering what average opinion believes average opinion to be."

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"Americans are apt to be unduly interested in discovering what average opinion believes average opinion to be."

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"Rootlessness," I opine, "is the twenty-first century norm.""You're not wrong and that's why we're in the shit we're in, mate. If you belong nowhere, why give a tinker's toss about anywhere?"

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"Half of the world population is dying from poverty and hunger and still you think you are not rich enough."

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