The biggest problem is not to let people accept new ideas, but to let them forget the old ones.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNESThe 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.
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In truth, the gold standard is already a barbarous relic.
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The division of the spoils between the victors will also provide employment for a powerful office, whose doorsteps the greedy adventurers and jealous concession hunters of twenty or thirty nations will crowd and defile.
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There is nothing so disastrous as a rational investment policy in an irrational world.
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Markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent.
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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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Nothing mattered except states of mind, chiefly our own.
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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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The boom, not the slump, is the right time for austerity at the Treasury.
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By this means (fractional reserve banking) government may secretly and unobserved, confiscate the wealth of the people, and not one man in a million will detect the theft.
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There is no intrinsic reason for the scarcity of capital.
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It is ideas, not vested interests, which are dangerous for good or evil.
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Economics is a very dangerous science.
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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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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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Canada is a place of infinite promise. We like the people, and if one ever had to emigrate, this would be the destination, not the U.S.A. The hills, lakes and forests make it a place of peace and repose of the mind, such as one never finds in the U.S.A.
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