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If you owe your bank a hundred pounds, you have a problem. But if you owe a million, it has.

John Maynard Keynes

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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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Description Government Machine Oneself Work
The decadent international but individualistic capitalism in the hands of which we found ourselves after the war is not a success. It is not intelligent. It is not beautiful. It is not just. It is not virtuous. And it doesn’t deliver the goods.
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Capital Deliver Goodness International Success Virtue War
Perhaps it is historically true that no order of society ever perishes save by its own hand.
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Hands History Save Society True
The political problem of mankind is to combine three things: economic efficiency, social justice and individual liberty.
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Economy Kind Liberty Man Politics Problem Society
To suggest social action for the public good to the city London is like discussing The Origin of Species to a Bishop sixty years ago.
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Action Discussion Origin Public Social
When the facts change, I change my mind.
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Change Fact Inspirational Mindset Myself Open
It is generally agreed that casinos should, in the public interest, be inaccessible and expensive. And perhaps the same is true of Stock Exchanges.
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Expensive Interest Public Stock Market
The numeric system was invented to help man to put order in the chaos of the world.
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Chaos Help Invention Man System World
It’s not bringing in the new ideas that’s so hard; it’s getting rid of the old ones.
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Hard Ideas Old Oneself
Gold is a relic from a time when government’s were less trustworthy in these matters (currency debasement) than they are now.
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Currency Gold Government Time Trust
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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The engine which drives enterprise is not thrift, but profit.
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Drive Profit Thrift
When the accumulation of wealth is no longer of high social importance, there will be great changes in the code of morals.
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Change Code Greatness Importance Moral Social Wealth
The duty of “saving” became nine-tenths of virtue and the growth of the cake the object of true religion.
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Growth Object Religion Save True Virtue
When somebody persuades me I am wrong, I change my mind.
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Change Mindset Myself Persuade Wrong
I know of only three people who really understand money. A professor at another university. One of my students. And a rather junior clerk at the Bank of England.
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Bank Known Myself People Understand University

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