For some queer and deplorable reason most human beings are more impressed by words than by figures, to the great disadvantage of mankind. (Jan Tinbergen)

For some queer and deplorable reason most human beings are more impressed by words than by figures, to the great disadvantage of mankind.

Jan Tinbergen

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