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The power to become habituated to his surroundings is a marked characteristic of mankind.

John Maynard Keynes

It would not be foolish to contemplate the possibility of a far greater progress still.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES

Foolish Greatness Possible Progress
Never in history was there a method devised of such efficacy for setting each country’s advantage at variance with its neighbours’ as the international gold (or, formerly, silver) standard.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES

Gold History International Method Standard
Ideas, knowledge, art, hospitality, travel – these are things which should in their nature be international. But let goods be homespun whenever it is reasonably and conveniently possible and above all let finance be primarily national.
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Art Finance Hospitality Ideas International Knowledge National Possible
The important thing for Government is not to do things which individuals are doing already, and to do them a little better or a little worse; but to do those things which at present are not done at all.
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Better Government Important Individual Present Worst
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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Benefit Capital Division Greatness Kind Man Society War Wealth
The forces of the nineteenth century have run their course and are exhausted.
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Course Exhaust Focus Run
Pyramid-building, earthquakes, even wars may serve to increase wealth, if the education of our statesmen on the principles of the classical economics stands in the way of anything better.
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Build Increase War Wealth
The markets are moved by animal spirits, and not by reason.
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Animal Market Move Reason Spirit
If you owe your bank a hundred pounds, you have a problem. But if you owe a million, it has.
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Bank Problem Wealth Yourself
I do not know which makes a man more conservative – to know nothing but the present, or nothing but the past.
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Conservatism Known Man Myself Past Present
The idea behind stamped money is sound.
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Ideas Money Sound Stamp
For at least another hundred years we must pretend to ourselves and to every one that fair is foul and foul is fair; for foul is useful and fair is not. Avarice and usury and precaution must be our gods for a little longer still.
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Fair God Oneself Pretend Soul
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
Capitalism is the extraordinary belief that the nastiest of men, for the nastiest of reasons, will somehow work for the benefit of us all.
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Belief Benefit Capital Man Nasty Reason Work
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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Change Farm Raining Season Stock Summer
Experience shows that what happens is always the thing against which one has not made provision in advance.
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Advance Experience Provision

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