The love of money as a possession. Will be recognised for what it is, a somewhat disgusting morbidity.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNESIdeas, knowledge, art, hospitality, travel – these are things which should in their nature be international. But let goods be homespun whenever it is reasonably and conveniently possible and above all let finance be primarily national.
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A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind.
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Logic , like lyrical poetry , is no employment for the middle-aged.
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I believe that the future will learn more from the spirit of Gesell than from that of Marx .
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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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Pyramid-building, earthquakes, even wars may serve to increase wealth, if the education of our statesmen on the principles of the classical economics stands in the way of anything better.
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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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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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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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To our generation Einstein has been made to become a double symbol – a symbol of the mind travelling in the cold regions of space, and a symbol of the brave and generous outcast, pure in heart and cheerful of spirit.
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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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When I find new information I change my mind; What do you do?
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When the facts change, I change my mind.
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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.
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Economics is a very dangerous science.
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There is nothing so disastrous as a rational investment policy in an irrational world.
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