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Some of you may have been hoping that today I would speak about Lucien Bouchard's latest economic theories. But I have decided to spare him for the time being: after all, he is a man. ↗

— Kim Campbell

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At the time, my personal research objectives were to provide Keynesian economics with more rigorous foundations and to tighten and elaborate the logic of macroeconomic and monetary theory. ↗

— James Tobin

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The crisis triggered a fertile period of scientific ferment and revolution in economic theory. ↗

— James Tobin

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There's no such thing as 'facts of life'. Only standing theories that haven't been disproved as of yet. ↗

— Simon Travaglia

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Life is so unlike theory. ↗

— Anthony Trollope

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Now the truth of the matter is that there are a lot of things people don't understand. Take the Einstein theory. Take taxes. Take love. Do you understand them? Neither do I. But they exist. They happen. ↗

— Dalton Trumbo

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It is a curious thing, do you know, Cranly said dispassionately, how your mind is supersaturated with the religion in which you say you disbelieve. ↗

— James Joyce

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And capital punishment, however ineffective it may be and through whatever ignorance it may be resorted to, is a strictly defensive act, - at least in theory. ↗

— Benjamin Tucker

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In art, theories are as useful as a doctor's prescription; one must be sick to believe them. ↗

— Maurice de Vlaminck

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My theory was that what I had to do was make a study of human behavior. ↗

— A. E. van Vogt

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