When somebody persuades me I am wrong, I change my mind.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNESI believe myself to be writing a book on economic theory which will largely revolutionize – not, I suppose, at once but in the course of the next ten years – the way the world thinks about economic problems.
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By this means (fractional reserve banking) government may secretly and unobserved, confiscate the wealth of the people, and not one man in a million will detect the theft.
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I am myself impressed by the great social advantages of increasing the stock of capital until it ceases to be scarce.
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There is nothing so disastrous as a rational investment policy in an irrational world.
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The important thing for Government is not to do things which individuals are doing already, and to do them a little better or a little worse; but to do those things which at present are not done at all.
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Chess is a cure for headaches.
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Nothing mattered except states of mind, chiefly our own.
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There is no intrinsic reason for the scarcity of capital.
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The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward.
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In the long run we are all dead.
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The disruptive powers of excessive national fecundity may have played a greater part in bursting the bonds of convention than either the power of ideas or the errors of autocracy.
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When the capital development of a country becomes a by-product of the activities of a casino, the job is likely to be ill-done.
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When the final result is expected to be a compromise, it is often prudent to start from an extreme position.
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An investor who proposes to ignore near-term market fluctuations needs greater resources for safety and must not operate on so large a scale, if at all, with borrowed money.
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Logic , like lyrical poetry , is no employment for the middle-aged.
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Like all his type, Newton was wholly aloof from women.
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