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.
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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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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We will not have any more crashes in our time.
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I believe that the future will learn more from the spirit of Gesell than from that of Marx .
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It is a good thing to make mistakes so long as you’re found out quickly.
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Nor should the argument seem strange that taxation may be so high as to defeat its object, and that, given sufficient time to gather the fruits, a reduction of taxation will run a better chance than an increase of balancing the budget.
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But my lord, when we addressed this issue a few years ago, didn’t you argue the other side?” He said, “That’s true, but when I get more evidence I sometimes change my mind. What do you do?
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The importance of money flows from it being a link between the present and the future.
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The forces of the nineteenth century have run their course and are exhausted.
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It is better to be roughly right than precisely wrong.
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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.
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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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If economists could manage to get themselves thought of as humble, competent people on a level with dentists, that would be splendid.
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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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Like all his type, Newton was wholly aloof from women.
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The atomic hypothesis which had worked so splendidly in Physics breaks down in Psychics.
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