A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNESConservatism leads nowhere; it satisfies no ideal.
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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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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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I think that Capitalism, wisely managed, can probably be made more efficient for attaining economic ends than any alternative system yet in sight, but that in itself is in many ways extremely objectionable.
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The study of economics does not seem to require any specialised gifts of an unusually high order.
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The forces of the nineteenth century have run their course and are exhausted.
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The destruction of the inducement to invest by an excessive liquidity-preference was the outstanding evil, the prime impediment to the growth of wealth, in the ancient and medieval worlds.
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In the long run we are all dead.
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But the dreams of designing diplomats do not always prosper, and we must trust the future .
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It would not be foolish to contemplate the possibility of a far greater progress still.
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The boom, not the slump, is the right time for austerity at the Treasury.
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One blames politicians, not for inconsistency but for obstinacy. They are the interpreters, not the masters, of our fate. It is their job, in fact, to register the fact accomplished.
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I believe myself to be writing a book on economic theory which will largely revolutionize – not, I suppose, at once but in the course of the next ten years – the way the world thinks about economic problems.
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It is a good thing to make mistakes so long as you’re found out quickly.
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The expected never happens; it is the unexpected always.
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Economics is a very dangerous science.
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