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One’s knowledge and experience are definitely limited and there are seldom more than two or three enterprises at any given time in which I personally feel myself entitled to put full confidence.

John Maynard Keynes

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
Words ought to be a little wild, for they are the assault of thoughts on the unthinking.
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Mistake Thinking Wild Word
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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Advantage Greatness Impression Scarce Social Stock
The forces of the nineteenth century have run their course and are exhausted.
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Course Exhaust Focus Run
This long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead. Economists set themselves too easy, too useless a task if in tempestuous seasons they can only tell us that when the storm is long past the ocean is flat again.
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Affair Current Death Guide Ocean Past Run Storm
It’s not bringing in the new ideas that’s so hard; it’s getting rid of the old ones.
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Hard Ideas Old Oneself
A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind.
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History Mindset Opinion Study
Long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead.
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Affair Death Guide
It is ideas, not vested interests, which are dangerous for good or evil.
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Dangerous Evil Goodness Ideas
In truth, the gold standard is already a barbarous relic.
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Gold Standard Truth
But whilst there may be intrinsic reasons for the scarcity of land, there are no intrinsic reasons for the scarcity of capital.
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Land Reason Scarcity
Pyramid-building, earthquakes, even wars may serve to increase wealth, if the education of our statesmen on the principles of the classical economics stands in the way of anything better.
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Build Increase War Wealth
It is better that a man should tyrannize over his bank balance than over his fellow-citizens.
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Balance Bank Better Citizenship Man
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.
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Action Discussion Origin Public Social
The principle objectives in life are love, the creation and enjoyment if aesthetic experience, the pursuit of knowledge. Love comes a long way first.
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Experience Knowledge Life Love Objective Principle
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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Error Excessive Ideas National Power

One’s knowledge and experience are definitely limited and there are seldom more than two or three enterprises at any given time in which I personally feel myself entitled to put full confidence.

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