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Words ought to be a little wild, for they are the assault of thoughts on the unthinking.

John Maynard Keynes

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When the final result is expected to be a compromise, it is often prudent to start from an extreme position.
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Compromise Expectation Final Position Result
The businessman is only tolerable so long as his gains can be held to bear some relation to what, roughly and in some sense, his activities have contributed to society.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES

Business Contribute Himself Man Society Tolerance
When the accumulation of wealth is no longer of high social importance, there will be great changes in the code of morals.
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Change Code Greatness Importance Moral Social Wealth
All production is for the purpose of ultimately satisfying a consumer.
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Consumer Purpose Satisfaction
The boom, not the slump, is the right time for austerity at the Treasury.
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Right Time Treasure
Americans are apt to be unduly interested in discovering what average opinion believes average opinion to be.
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Average Believe Discover Interest Opinion
The important thing for Government is not to do things which individuals are doing already, and to do them a little better or a little worse; but to do those things which at present are not done at all.
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Better Government Important Individual Present Worst
Ideas shape the course of history.
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Course History Ideas Shape
All the political parties alike have their origins in past ideas and not in new ideas and none more conspicuously so than the Marxists .
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Ideas Origin Party Politics
What an extraordinary episode in the economic progress of man that age was which came to an end in August, 1914!
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Age Episode Man Progress
Like all his type, Newton was wholly aloof from women.
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Scientist Type Woman
The power to become habituated to his surroundings is a marked characteristic of mankind.
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Character Habitat Kind Man Power Surround
Worldly wisdom teaches that it is better for reputation to fail conventionally than to succeed unconventionally.
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Convention Failure Teaching Wisdom World
Gold is a relic from a time when government’s were less trustworthy in these matters (currency debasement) than they are now.
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Currency Gold Government Time Trust
Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent.
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Different Education Incompetent
I believe that the future will learn more from the spirit of Gesell than from that of Marx .
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Believe Future Learning Myself

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