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Ideas, 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.

John Maynard Keynes

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
In truth, the gold standard is already a barbarous relic.
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Gold Standard Truth
Logic , like lyrical poetry , is no employment for the middle-aged.
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Age Employment Logic Lyrics Poetry
How long will it be necessary to pay City men so entirely out of proportion to what other servants of society commonly receive for performing social services not less useful or difficult?
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Difficult Necessary Pay Performance Service
Chess is a cure for headaches.
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Chess Game Head Pain
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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Activity Country Development Job
One’s knowledge and experience are definitely limited and there are seldom more than two or three enterprises at any given time in which I personally feel myself entitled to put full confidence.
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Confidence Enterprise Experience Knowledge Personal
But the dreams of designing diplomats do not always prosper, and we must trust the future .
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Design Dream Future Prosper Trust
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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Build Increase War Wealth
The power to become habituated to his surroundings is a marked characteristic of mankind.
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Character Habitat Kind Man Power Surround
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 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
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
Obstinacy can bring only a penalty and no reward.
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Obstinate Penalty Reward
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
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

Ideas, 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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