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Ideas are inherently conservative. They yield not to the attack of other ideas but to the massive onslaught of circumstance with which they cannot contend.

— John Kenneth Galbraith The Affluent Society (1958)

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When you see reference to a new paradigm you should always, under all circumstances, take cover.

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