‘When the facts change I change my mind. And what do you do, sir?’

-John Maynard Keynes, to an unnamed dogmatist.



“ A man has one birthplace, one fatherland, one country…he can only have one country…and the place of his birth is the most important factor in his life…I did not leave Russia of my own will, even though I disliked much in my Russia and in Russia generally. Yet the right to criticize Russia is mine and because I love it, and I do not give any foreigner the right.”

~The Russian composer Igor Stravinsky, on his return to Russia after fifty years in exile

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Found in
The Last Liberal and Other Essays, Ramachandra Guha