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The expected never happens; it is the unexpected always.

John Maynard Keynes

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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
I know of only three people who really understand money. A professor at another university. One of my students. And a rather junior clerk at the Bank of England.
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Bank Known Myself People Understand University
It would be foolish, in forming our expectations, to attach great weight to matters which are very uncertain.
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Attachment Certain Expectation Fools
The glory of the nation you love is a desirable end, – but generally to be obtained at your neighbor’s expense.
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Desire Glory Love Nation Yourself
It would not be foolish to contemplate the possibility of a far greater progress still.
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Foolish Greatness Possible Progress
It is Enterprise which build and improves the world’s possessions. If Enterprise is afoot, Wealth accumulates whatever may be happening to Thrift; and if Enterprise is asleep, Wealth decays, whatever Thrift may be doing.
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Build Enterprise Improve Possession Sleep Thrift Wealth World
The political problem of mankind is to combine three things: economic efficiency, social justice and individual liberty.
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Economy Kind Liberty Man Politics Problem Society
It is the duty of the long-term investor to endure great losses with equanimity.
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Greatness Investment Loss Responsibility
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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Argument Balance Budget Defeat Fruit Object Strange
Obstinacy can bring only a penalty and no reward.
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Obstinate Penalty Reward
We will not have any more crashes in our time.
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Crash Ourselves Time
I do not know which makes a man more conservative – to know nothing but the present, or nothing but the past.
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Conservatism Known Man Myself Past Present
The outstanding faults of the economic society in which we live are its failure to provide for full employment and its arbitrary and inequitable distribution of wealth and incomes.
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Distribution Economy Income Mistake Outstanding Wealth
Experience shows that what happens is always the thing against which one has not made provision in advance.
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Advance Experience Provision
The love of money as a possession. Will be recognised for what it is, a somewhat disgusting morbidity.
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Disgusting Love Money Possession Recognition
The day is not far off when the economic problem will take the back seat where it belongs, and the arena of the heart and the head will be occupied or reoccupied, by our real problems – the problems of life and of human relations, of creation and behavior and religion.
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Behavior Creation Economics Head Heart Problem Religion
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
This long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead. Economists set themselves too easy, too useless a task if in tempestuous seasons they can only tell us that when the storm is long past the ocean is flat again.
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Affair Current Death Guide Ocean Past Run Storm
A speculator is one who runs risks of which he is aware and an investor is one who runs risks of which he is unaware.
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Aware Himself Investor Risk Run
Ideas shape the course of history.
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Course History Ideas Shape
Like all his type, Newton was wholly aloof from women.
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Scientist Type Woman
There is no harm in being sometimes wrong – especially if one is promptly found out.
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Finding Harm Oneself Wrong
$John Maynard Keynes Quote - By this means (fractional reserve banking) government may secretly and unobserved, confiscate the wealth of the people, and not one man in a million will detect the theft.$

By this means (fractional reserve banking) government may secretly and unobserved, confiscate the wealth of the people, and not one man in a million will detect the theft.
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Detection Man Mistake Reserve Secret
Perhaps it is historically true that no order of society ever perishes save by its own hand.
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Hands History Save Society True
The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping from the old ones.
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Deep Difficult Effort Escape Ideas Inspirational Lying Old
I find myself more and more relying for a solution of our problems on the invisible hand which I tried to eject from economic thinking twenty years ago.
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Finding Hands Invisible Myself Solution Trying
Most men love money and security more, and creation and construction less, as they get older.
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Construction Love Man Money Old Security

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