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Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone.

John Maynard Keynes

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
If you owe your bank a hundred pounds, you have a problem. But if you owe a million, it has.
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Bank Problem Wealth Yourself
The boom, not the slump, is the right time for austerity at the Treasury.
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Right Time Treasure
Logic , like lyrical poetry , is no employment for the middle-aged.
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Age Employment Logic Lyrics Poetry
It is ideas, not vested interests, which are dangerous for good or evil.
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Dangerous Evil Goodness Ideas
Everything is always decided for reasons other than the real merits of the case.
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Case Decision Reality Reason
Gold is a relic from a time when government’s were less trustworthy in these matters (currency debasement) than they are now.
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Currency Gold Government Time Trust
I was suffering from my chronic delusion that one good share is safer than ten bad ones, and I am always forgetting that hardly anyone else shares this particular delusion.
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Delusion Forget Goodness Suffering
The numeric system was invented to help man to put order in the chaos of the world.
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Chaos Help Invention Man System World
If farming were to be organised like the stock market, a farmer would sell his farm in the morning when it was raining, only to buy it back in the afternoon when the sun came out.
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Change Farm Raining Season Stock Summer
Like all his type, Newton was wholly aloof from women.
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Scientist Type Woman
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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Economy Humble Level Management Splendid
For my own part, I believe that there is social and psychological justification for significant inequalities of incomes and wealth.
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Believe Income Justification Social Wealth
Morally and philosophically I find myself in agreement with virtually the whole of it: and not only in agreement with it, but in deeply moved agreement.
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Agreement Move Philosophy Virtual
Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone.
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Belief Capital Goodness Greatness Man Wicket
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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Argument Balance Budget Defeat Fruit Object Strange

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