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.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNESShould government refrain from regulation (taxation), the worthlessness of the money becomes apparent and the fraud can no longer be concealed.
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In truth, the gold standard is already a barbarous relic.
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The numeric system was invented to help man to put order in the chaos of the world.
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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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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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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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The study of economics does not seem to require any specialised gifts of an unusually high order.
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The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping from the old ones.
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Perhaps it is historically true that no order of society ever perishes save by its own hand.
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Like all his type, Newton was wholly aloof from women.
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I am myself impressed by the great social advantages of increasing the stock of capital until it ceases to be scarce.
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There is no subtler, no surer means of overturning the existing basis of society than to debauch the currency.
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It would not be foolish to contemplate the possibility of a far greater progress still.
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For at least another hundred years we must pretend to ourselves and to every one that fair is foul and foul is fair; for foul is useful and fair is not. Avarice and usury and precaution must be our gods for a little longer still.
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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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Perhaps a day might come when there would be at last be enough to go round, and when posterity could enter into the enjoyment of our labors.
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