The Economic Problem, the problem of want and poverty and the economic struggle between classes and nations, is nothing but a frightful muddle, a transitory and unnecessary muddle.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNESThe difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping from the old ones.
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Perhaps a day might come when there would be at last be enough to go round, and when posterity could enter into the enjoyment of our labors.
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When I find new information I change my mind; What do you do?
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All production is for the purpose of ultimately satisfying a consumer.
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There is no harm in being sometimes wrong – especially if one is promptly found out.
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It is better to be roughly right than precisely wrong.
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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 expected never happens; it is the unexpected always.
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We will not have any more crashes in our time.
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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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It would be foolish, in forming our expectations, to attach great weight to matters which are very uncertain.
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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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The businessman is only tolerable so long as his gains can be held to bear some relation to what, roughly and in some sense, his activities have contributed to society.
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Investment based on genuine long-term expectations is so difficult today as to be scarcely practicable.
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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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Once we allow ourselves to be disobedient to the test of an accountant’s profit, we have begun to change our civilization.
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