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I am sure that the power of vested interests is vastly exaggerated compared with the gradual encroachment of ideas.

John Maynard Keynes

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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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It’s not bringing in the new ideas that’s so hard; it’s getting rid of the old ones.
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The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping from the old ones.
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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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A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind.
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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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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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When my information changes, I alter my conclusions. What do you do, sir?
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Investing is an activity of forecasting the yield over the life of the asset; speculation is the activity of forecasting the psychology of the market.
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Conservatism leads nowhere; it satisfies no ideal.
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The duty of “saving” became nine-tenths of virtue and the growth of the cake the object of true religion.
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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.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES

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The power to become habituated to his surroundings is a marked characteristic of mankind.
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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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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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Long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead.
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