Ideas shape the course of history.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNESThe expected never happens; it is the unexpected always.
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It is better to be roughly right than precisely wrong.
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I’d rather be vaguely right than precisely wrong.
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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 difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping from the old ones.
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When somebody persuades me I am wrong, I change my mind.
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Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent.
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Nor should the argument seem strange that taxation may be so high as to defeat its object, and that, given sufficient time to gather the fruits, a reduction of taxation will run a better chance than an increase of balancing the budget.
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I am myself impressed by the great social advantages of increasing the stock of capital until it ceases to be scarce.
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The considerations upon which expectations of prospective yields are based are partly existing facts which we can assume to be known more or less for certain, and partly future events which can only be forecasted with more or less confidence.
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It is ideas, not vested interests, which are dangerous for good or evil.
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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 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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Practical men who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influence, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist. Madmen in authority, who hear voices in the air, are distilling their frenzy from some academic scribbler of a few years back.
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Everything is always decided for reasons other than the real merits of the case.
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Americans are apt to be unduly interested in discovering what average opinion believes average opinion to be.
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