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Everything is always decided for reasons other than the real merits of the case.

John Maynard Keynes

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An investor who proposes to ignore near-term market fluctuations needs greater resources for safety and must not operate on so large a scale, if at all, with borrowed money.
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Borrow Ignorance Investor Large Money Operate Propose Safety Scale
It is investment, i.e. the increased production of material wealth in the shape of capital goods, which alone increases national wealth.
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Capital Investment National Production Wealth
I believe myself to be writing a book on economic theory which will largely revolutionize – not, I suppose, at once but in the course of the next ten years – the way the world thinks about economic problems.
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Believe Economics Problem Revolution Thinking World Writing
$John Maynard Keynes Quote - By this means (fractional reserve banking) government may secretly and unobserved, confiscate the wealth of the people, and not one man in a million will detect the theft.$

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.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES

Detection Man Mistake Reserve Secret
Conservatism leads nowhere; it satisfies no ideal.
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Conservatism Ideal Satisfaction
There is no intrinsic reason for the scarcity of capital.
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Capital Reason Scarcity
The decadent international but individualistic capitalism in the hands of which we found ourselves after the war is not a success. It is not intelligent. It is not beautiful. It is not just. It is not virtuous. And it doesn’t deliver the goods.
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Capital Deliver Goodness International Success Virtue War
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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Citizenship Important Inflation Process Secret
Well, when I get new information, I rethink my position. What, sir, do you do with new information?
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Information Myself Position Thinking Yourself
I find myself more and more relying for a solution of our problems on the invisible hand which I tried to eject from economic thinking twenty years ago.
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Finding Hands Invisible Myself Solution Trying
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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Crowd Division Employment Nation Provide Spoil
The friends of gold will have to be extremely wise and moderate if they are to avoid a revolution.
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Avoid Friendship Gold Revolution Wisdom
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
The forces of the nineteenth century have run their course and are exhausted.
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Course Exhaust Focus Run
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
The duty of “saving” became nine-tenths of virtue and the growth of the cake the object of true religion.
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Growth Object Religion Save True Virtue

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