The boom, not the slump, is the right time for austerity at the Treasury.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNESAll the political parties alike have their origins in past ideas and not in new ideas and none more conspicuously so than the Marxists .
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I was suffering from my chronic delusion that one good share is safer than ten bad ones, and I am always forgetting that hardly anyone else shares this particular delusion.
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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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It is ideas, not vested interests, which are dangerous for good or evil.
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Most men love money and security more, and creation and construction less, as they get older.
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The power to become habituated to his surroundings is a marked characteristic of mankind.
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Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent.
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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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The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping from the old ones.
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The social object of skilled investment should be to defeat the dark forces of time and ignorance which envelope our future.
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The engine which drives enterprise is not thrift, but profit.
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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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Long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead.
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Once doubt begins it spreads rapidly.
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It would not be foolish to contemplate the possibility of a far greater progress still.
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The love of money as a possession. Will be recognised for what it is, a somewhat disgusting morbidity.
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