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The principle objectives in life are love, the creation and enjoyment if aesthetic experience, the pursuit of knowledge. Love comes a long way first.

John Maynard Keynes

Once we allow ourselves to be disobedient to the test of an accountant’s profit, we have begun to change our civilization.
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Allow Beginning Change Civilization Disobedient Profit
The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping the old ones, which ramify, for those brought up as most of us have been, into every corner of our minds.
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Difficult Escape Ideas Lying Mindset Ourselves
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
It is investment, i.e. the increased production of material wealth in the shape of capital goods, which alone increases national wealth.
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Capital Investment National Production Wealth
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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Error Excessive Ideas National Power
Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone.
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Belief Capital Goodness Greatness Man Wicket
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
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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Confidence Existence Expectation Forecast Known Prediction
The power to become habituated to his surroundings is a marked characteristic of mankind.
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Character Habitat Kind Man Power Surround
Like all his type, Newton was wholly aloof from women.
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Scientist Type Woman
Gold is a relic from a time when government’s were less trustworthy in these matters (currency debasement) than they are now.
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Currency Gold Government Time Trust
The businessman is only tolerable so long as his gains can be held to bear some relation to what, roughly and in some sense, his activities have contributed to society.
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Business Contribute Himself Man Society Tolerance
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
It is better that a man should tyrannize over his bank balance than over his fellow-citizens.
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Balance Bank Better Citizenship Man
The duty of “saving” became nine-tenths of virtue and the growth of the cake the object of true religion.
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Growth Object Religion Save True Virtue
If you owe your bank manager a thousand pounds, you are at his mercy. If you owe him a million pounds, he is at your mercy.
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Bank Manager Mercy Rich Yourself

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