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1 " [Conventional wisdom] very heavily tends to reflect the preferences and the interests of the elite. "
― Paul Krugman
2 " Women are beautiful because the world sees with the eyes of men and us men are still influencing the preferences of humanity. "
― Hockson Floin
3 " According to the prevailing notion, freedom manifests as “preference-satisfying behavior.” About the preferences themselves we are to maintain a principled silence, out of deference to the autonomy of the individual. They are said to express the authentic core of the self, and are for that reason unavailable for rational scrutiny. But this logic would seem to break down when our preferences are the object of massive social engineering, conducted not by government “nudgers” but by those who want to monetize our attention. "
― Matthew B. Crawford
4 " The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief... that the forces which move the stars and atoms are contingent upon the preferences of the human heart. "
