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The love of money as a possession. Will be recognised for what it is, a somewhat disgusting morbidity.

John Maynard Keynes

The expected never happens; it is the unexpected always.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES

Expectation Inspirational Miracle Motivational
It has been pointed out already that no knowledge of probabilities, less in degree than certainty, helps us to know what conclusions are true, and that there is no direct relation between the truth of a proposition and its probability. Probability begins and ends with probability.
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Direct Knowledge Point Probability True
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
The duty of “saving” became nine-tenths of virtue and the growth of the cake the object of true religion.
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Growth Object Religion Save True Virtue
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
The immense accumulations of fixed capital which, to the great benefit of mankind, were built up during the half century before the war, could never have come about in a Society where wealth was divided equitably.
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Benefit Capital Division Greatness Kind Man Society War Wealth
The introduction of a substantial Government transfer tax on all transactions might prove the most serviceable reform available,with a view to mitigating the predominance of speculation in the United States.
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Government Introduction Speculation Transaction
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
The love of money as a possession. Will be recognised for what it is, a somewhat disgusting morbidity.
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Disgusting Love Money Possession Recognition
Economics is a very dangerous science.
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Dangerous Economics Science
There is no harm in being sometimes wrong – especially if one is promptly found out.
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Finding Harm Oneself Wrong
It is better to be roughly right than precisely wrong.
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Better Choice Right Wrong
When somebody persuades me I am wrong, I change my mind.
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Change Mindset Myself Persuade Wrong
Experience shows that what happens is always the thing against which one has not made provision in advance.
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Advance Experience Provision
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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Better Government Important Individual Present Worst
The day is not far off when the economic problem will take the back seat where it belongs, and the arena of the heart and the head will be occupied or reoccupied, by our real problems – the problems of life and of human relations, of creation and behavior and religion.
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Behavior Creation Economics Head Heart Problem Religion

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