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The markets are moved by animal spirits, and not by reason.

John Maynard Keynes

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I think that Capitalism, wisely managed, can probably be made more efficient for attaining economic ends than any alternative system yet in sight, but that in itself is in many ways extremely objectionable.
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But the dreams of designing diplomats do not always prosper, and we must trust the future .
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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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Worldly wisdom teaches that it is better for reputation to fail conventionally than to succeed unconventionally.
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Capitalism is the extraordinary belief that the nastiest of men, for the nastiest of reasons, will somehow work for the benefit of us all.
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It would be foolish, in forming our expectations, to attach great weight to matters which are very uncertain.
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The decadent international but individualistic capitalism in the hands of which we found ourselves after the war is not a success. It is not intelligent. It is not beautiful. It is not just. It is not virtuous. And it doesn’t deliver the goods.
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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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Men will not always die quietly.
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We will not have any more crashes in our time.
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The considerations upon which expectations of prospective yields are based are partly existing facts which we can assume to be known more or less for certain, and partly future events which can only be forecasted with more or less confidence.
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I’d rather be vaguely right than precisely wrong.
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I am sure that the power of vested interests is vastly exaggerated compared with the gradual encroachment of ideas.
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Economics is a very dangerous science.
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When the facts change, I change my mind.
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When I find new information I change my mind; What do you do?
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