“The conventional wisdom is often wrong.”
Steven D. Levitt (1967) American economist
Source: Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
“The enemy of the conventional wisdom is not ideas but the march of events.”
Source: The Affluent Society (1958), Chapter 2, Section IV, p. 21
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Heroides (The Heroines)
Original: (la) Exitus acta probat.
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Variant translations: The ends justify the means. All's well that ends well. NB: the end does not always equal the goal.
II, 85
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Source: Wizard's First Rule
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Source: The 80/20 principle: the secret of achieving more with less (1999), p. 28