The disruptive powers of excessive national fecundity may have played a greater part in bursting the bonds of convention than either the power of ideas or the errors of autocracy.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES
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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The disruptive powers of excessive national fecundity may have played a greater part in bursting the bonds of convention than either the power of ideas or the errors of autocracy.
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It would not be foolish to contemplate the possibility of a far greater progress still.
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Logic , like lyrical poetry , is no employment for the middle-aged.
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The key to selecting the winner isn’t choosing the face you think is the most beautiful but rather the face other people will pick
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Economists must leave to Adam Smith alone the glory of the Quarto, must pluck the day, fling pamphlets into the wind, write always sub specie temporis , and achieve immortality by accident, if at all.
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There is no subtler, no surer means of overturning the existing basis of society than to debauch the currency.
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When the facts change, I change my mind.
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If you owe your bank a hundred pounds, you have a problem. But if you owe a million, it has.
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I am sure that the power of vested interests is vastly exaggerated compared with the gradual encroachment of ideas.
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Conservatism leads nowhere; it satisfies no ideal.
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Morally and philosophically I find myself in agreement with virtually the whole of it: and not only in agreement with it, but in deeply moved agreement.
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The biggest problem is not to let people accept new ideas, but to let them forget the old ones.
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Perhaps it is historically true that no order of society ever perishes save by its own hand.
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Nothing mattered except states of mind, chiefly our own.
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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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When the final result is expected to be a compromise, it is often prudent to start from an extreme position.
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