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As the economist John Maynard Keynes said, “Mad men in authority, who hear voices in the air, are distilling their frenzy from some academic scribbler of a few years back.”

From Salon • May 6, 2017

“Pastured dairies are distilling the local landscape into the cheese,” she says.

From Washington Post • Jun. 29, 2015

As Keynes once put it, “Madmen in authority, who hear voices in the air, are distilling their frenzy from some academic scribbler of a few years back.”

From New York Times • Mar. 20, 2012

"Madmen in authority, who hear voices in the air, are distilling their frenzy from some academic scribbler of a few years back," John Maynard Keynes observed in 1936.

From Salon • Jan. 5, 2011

Its principal industries are: distilling, milling, machinery-making, leather-working and saw-milling.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 3 "Apollodorus" to "Aral" by Various