The key to selecting the winner isn’t choosing the face you think is the most beautiful but rather the face other people will pick
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNESEconomics is a very dangerous science.
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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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For my own part, I believe that there is social and psychological justification for significant inequalities of incomes and wealth.
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Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent.
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To our generation Einstein has been made to become a double symbol – a symbol of the mind travelling in the cold regions of space, and a symbol of the brave and generous outcast, pure in heart and cheerful of spirit.
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Perhaps it is historically true that no order of society ever perishes save by its own hand.
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The forces of the nineteenth century have run their course and are exhausted.
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The central principle of investment is to go contrary to the general opinion, on the grounds that if everyone agreed about its merits, the investment is inevitably too dear and therefore unattractive.
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But the dreams of designing diplomats do not always prosper, and we must trust the future .
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The treasury could fill old bottles with banknotes and bury them, and leave it to private enterprises on well-tried principles of laissez-faire to dig the notes up again.
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As time goes on, I get more and more convinced that the right method of investment is to put fairly large sums into enterprises which one thinks one knows something about and in the management of which one thoroughly believes.
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The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping from the old ones.
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I’d rather be vaguely right than precisely wrong.
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Thus, the weight of my criticism is directed against the inadequacy of the theoretical foundations of the laissez-faire doctrine upon which I was brought up and for many years I taught
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The engine which drives enterprise is not thrift, but profit.
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In truth, the gold standard is already a barbarous relic.
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