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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.

John Maynard Keynes

It’s not bringing in the new ideas that’s so hard; it’s getting rid of the old ones.
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Hard Ideas Old Oneself
The boom, not the slump, is the right time for austerity at the Treasury.
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Right Time Treasure
It economics is a method rather than a doctrine, an apparatus of the mind, a technique of thinking which helps its possessor to draw correct conclusions.
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Conclusion Drawing Economics Mindset Technique
There is nothing so disastrous as a rational investment policy in an irrational world.
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Disaster Investment Rational World
I conceive, therefore, that a somewhat comprehensive socialisation of investment will prove the means of securing an approximation to full employment.
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Employment Evidence Investment Myself Social
Perhaps a day might come when there would be at last be enough to go round, and when posterity could enter into the enjoyment of our labors.
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Enjoyment Enough Labor Poster Round
Conservatism leads nowhere; it satisfies no ideal.
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Conservatism Ideal Satisfaction
A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind.
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History Mindset Opinion Study
Worldly wisdom teaches that it is better for reputation to fail conventionally than to succeed unconventionally.
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Convention Failure Teaching Wisdom World
For my own part, I believe that there is social and psychological justification for significant inequalities of incomes and wealth.
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Believe Income Justification Social Wealth
All 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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Ideas Origin Party Politics
The division of the spoils between the victors will also provide employment for a powerful office, whose doorsteps the greedy adventurers and jealous concession hunters of twenty or thirty nations will crowd and defile.
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Crowd Division Employment Nation Provide Spoil
Everything is always decided for reasons other than the real merits of the case.
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Case Decision Reality Reason
The power to become habituated to his surroundings is a marked characteristic of mankind.
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Character Habitat Kind Man Power Surround
I believe that the future will learn more from the spirit of Gesell than from that of Marx .
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Believe Future Learning Myself
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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Face People Selection Thinking Winner

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