When my information changes, I alter my conclusions. What do you do, sir?
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES
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John Maynard KeynesJohn Maynard Keynes 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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