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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Nothing mattered except states of mind, chiefly our own.
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The important thing for Government is not to do things which individuals are doing already, and to do them a little better or a little worse; but to do those things which at present are not done at all.
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It would be foolish, in forming our expectations, to attach great weight to matters which are very uncertain.
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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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Obstinacy can bring only a penalty and no reward.
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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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Most men love money and security more, and creation and construction less, as they get older.
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When I find new information I change my mind; What do you do?
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When the capital development of a country becomes a by-product of the activities of a casino, the job is likely to be ill-done.
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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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The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is generally understood. Indeed, the world is ruled by little else.
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I’d rather be vaguely right than precisely wrong.
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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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Conservatism leads nowhere; it satisfies no ideal.
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When my information changes, I alter my conclusions. What do you do, sir?
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