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I’d rather be vaguely right than precisely wrong.

John Maynard Keynes

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A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind.
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The political problem of mankind is to combine three things: economic efficiency, social justice and individual liberty.
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The principle objectives in life are love, the creation and enjoyment if aesthetic experience, the pursuit of knowledge. Love comes a long way first.
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If farming were to be organised like the stock market, a farmer would sell his farm in the morning when it was raining, only to buy it back in the afternoon when the sun came out.
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In the long run we are all dead.
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There is nothing so disastrous as a rational investment policy in an irrational world.
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How long will it be necessary to pay City men so entirely out of proportion to what other servants of society commonly receive for performing social services not less useful or difficult?
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Whenever you save five shillings you put a man out of work for a day.
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The boom, not the slump, is the right time for austerity at the Treasury.
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I’d rather be vaguely right than precisely wrong.
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The power to become habituated to his surroundings is a marked characteristic of mankind.
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Nothing mattered except states of mind, chiefly our own.
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Well, when I get new information, I rethink my position. What, sir, do you do with new information?
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It is a mistake to think that one limits one’s risk by spreading too much between enterprises about which one knows little and has no reason for special confidence.
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Government machinery has been described as a marvelous labor saving device which enables ten men to do the work of one.
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The glory of the nation you love is a desirable end, – but generally to be obtained at your neighbor’s expense.
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