The ideas which now pass for brilliant innovations and advances are in…

Henry Hazlitt
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The ideas which now pass for brilliant innovations and advances are in fact mere revivals of ancient errors, and a further proof of the dictum that those who are ignorant of the past are condemned to repeat it. ✨ Henry Hazlitt (2010). Economics in One Lesson: The Shortest and Surest Way to Understand Basic Economics, p.6, Crown Business
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