Most men love money and security more, and creation and construction less, as they get older.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES
The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping the old ones, which ramify, for those brought up as most of us have been, into every corner of our minds.
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Most men love money and security more, and creation and construction less, as they get older.
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Economics is a very dangerous science.
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Obstinacy can bring only a penalty and no reward.
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It’s not bringing in the new ideas that’s so hard; it’s getting rid of the old ones.
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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 key to selecting the winner isn’t choosing the face you think is the most beautiful but rather the face other people will pick
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Logic , like lyrical poetry , is no employment for the middle-aged.
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I’d rather be vaguely right than precisely wrong.
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The considerations upon which expectations of prospective yields are based are partly existing facts which we can assume to be known more or less for certain, and partly future events which can only be forecasted with more or less confidence.
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I work for a Government I despise for ends I think criminal.
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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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In truth, the gold standard is already a barbarous relic.
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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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The right remedy for the trade cycle is not to be found in abolishing booms and thus keeping us permanently in a semi-slump; but in abolishing slumps and thus keeping us permanently in a quasi-boom.
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The immense accumulations of fixed capital which, to the great benefit of mankind, were built up during the half century before the war, could never have come about in a Society where wealth was divided equitably.
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