When my information changes, I alter my conclusions. What do you do, sir?
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNESWhat an extraordinary episode in the economic progress of man that age was which came to an end in August, 1914!
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The outstanding faults of the economic society in which we live are its failure to provide for full employment and its arbitrary and inequitable distribution of wealth and incomes.
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I do not know which makes a man more conservative – to know nothing but the present, or nothing but the past.
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Investment based on genuine long-term expectations is so difficult today as to be scarcely practicable.
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Nothing mattered except states of mind, chiefly our own.
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Practical men who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influence, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist. Madmen in authority, who hear voices in the air, are distilling their frenzy from some academic scribbler of a few years back.
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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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Most men love money and security more, and creation and construction less, as they get older.
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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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Logic , like lyrical poetry , is no employment for the middle-aged.
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It would not be foolish to contemplate the possibility of a far greater progress still.
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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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All production is for the purpose of ultimately satisfying a consumer.
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There is nothing so disastrous as a rational investment policy in an irrational world.
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Markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent.
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The forces of the nineteenth century have run their course and are exhausted.
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