For at least another hundred years we must pretend to ourselves and to every one that fair is foul and foul is fair; for foul is useful and fair is not. Avarice and usury and precaution must be our gods for a little longer still.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNESThere is no intrinsic reason for the scarcity of capital.
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When my information changes, I alter my conclusions. What do you do, sir?
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In truth, the gold standard is already a barbarous relic.
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A sound banker, alas, is not one who foresees danger and avoids it, but one who, when he is ruined, is ruined in a conventional way along with his fellows, so that no one can really blame him.
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Perhaps a day might come when there would be at last be enough to go round, and when posterity could enter into the enjoyment of our labors.
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It is better that a man should tyrannize over his bank balance than over his fellow-citizens.
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When I find new information I change my mind; What do you do?
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The love of money as a possession. Will be recognised for what it is, a somewhat disgusting morbidity.
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If you owe your bank a hundred pounds, you have a problem. But if you owe a million, it has.
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The idea behind stamped money is sound.
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I conceive, therefore, that a somewhat comprehensive socialisation of investment will prove the means of securing an approximation to full employment.
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It is a good thing to make mistakes so long as you’re found out quickly.
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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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For my own part, I believe that there is social and psychological justification for significant inequalities of incomes and wealth.
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Chess is a cure for headaches.
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Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent.
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