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Memory is life. It is always carried by groups of living people, and therefore it is in permanent evolution.
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As one would expect of tourists, they tried to find poverty colourful,
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The greatest cruelties of our century have been the impersonal cruelties of remote decision, of system and routine, especially when they could be justified as regrettable operational necessity.
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Economists who simply advised leaving the economy alone, governments whose first instincts, apart from protecting the gold standard by deflationary policies, was to stick to financial orthodoxy, balance budgets and cut costs, were visibly not making the situation better. Indeed, as the depression continued, it was argued with considerable force not least by J.M. Keynes who consequently became the most influential economist of the next forty..
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Indeed, it may be suggested that 'traditions' and pragmatic conventions or routines are inversely related.
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