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The Economic Problem, the problem of want and poverty and the economic struggle between classes and nations, is nothing but a frightful muddle, a transitory and unnecessary muddle.

John Maynard Keynes

The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward.
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Avoid Carry Intellectual Reward Tax
The introduction of a substantial Government transfer tax on all transactions might prove the most serviceable reform available,with a view to mitigating the predominance of speculation in the United States.
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Government Introduction Speculation Transaction
The idea behind stamped money is sound.
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Ideas Money Sound Stamp
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
Like all his type, Newton was wholly aloof from women.
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Scientist Type Woman
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
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
Long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead.
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Affair Death Guide
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
It would not be foolish to contemplate the possibility of a far greater progress still.
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Foolish Greatness Possible Progress
Conservatism leads nowhere; it satisfies no ideal.
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Conservatism Ideal Satisfaction
The importance of money flows from it being a link between the present and the future.
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Future Importance Money Present
For at least another hundred years we must pretend to ourselves and to every one that fair is foul and foul is fair; for foul is useful and fair is not. Avarice and usury and precaution must be our gods for a little longer still.
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Fair God Oneself Pretend Soul
Men will not always die quietly.
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Death Man Quiet
The power to become habituated to his surroundings and therefore to no longer be grateful for what is good in it is a marked characteristic of mankind and needs to be fought against if a person is to be happy.
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Goodness Gratitude Habitat Happiness Person Power Surrounding
Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent.
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Different Education Incompetent

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