Chess is a cure for headaches.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNESEverything is always decided for reasons other than the real merits of the case.
More John Maynard Keynes Quotes
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Logic , like lyrical poetry , is no employment for the middle-aged.
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The right remedy for the trade cycle is not to be found in abolishing booms and thus keeping us permanently in a semi-slump; but in abolishing slumps and thus keeping us permanently in a quasi-boom.
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When I find new information I change my mind; What do you do?
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Ideas shape the course of history.
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To suggest social action for the public good to the city London is like discussing The Origin of Species to a Bishop sixty years ago.
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By a continuing process of inflation, government can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens.
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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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Whenever you save five shillings you put a man out of work for a day.
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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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It would not be foolish to contemplate the possibility of a far greater progress still.
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Conservatism leads nowhere; it satisfies no ideal.
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It is a good thing to make mistakes so long as you’re found out quickly.
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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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The central principle of investment is to go contrary to the general opinion, on the grounds that if everyone agreed about its merits, the investment is inevitably too dear and therefore unattractive.
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The idea behind stamped money is sound.
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