But the dreams of designing diplomats do not always prosper, and we must trust the future .
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNESTo 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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Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent.
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Nothing mattered except states of mind, chiefly our own.
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In truth, the gold standard is already a barbarous relic.
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Like all his type, Newton was wholly aloof from women.
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In the long run we are all dead.
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The day is not far off when the economic problem will take the back seat where it belongs, and the arena of the heart and the head will be occupied or reoccupied, by our real problems – the problems of life and of human relations, of creation and behavior and religion.
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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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The study of economics does not seem to require any specialised gifts of an unusually high order.
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It is better that a man should tyrannize over his bank balance than over his fellow-citizens.
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The boom, not the slump, is the right time for austerity at the Treasury.
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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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We will not have any more crashes in our time.
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When my information changes, I alter my conclusions. What do you do, sir?
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The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping from the old ones.
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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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