It would not be foolish to contemplate the possibility of a far greater progress still.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNESIt is astonishing what foolish things one can temporarily believe if one thinks too long alone, particularly in economics.
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Experience shows that what happens is always the thing against which one has not made provision in advance.
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If human nature felt no temptation to take a chance there might not be much investment merely as a result of cold calculation.
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Dangerous acts can be done safely in a community which thinks and feels rightly, which would be the way to hell if they were executed by those who think and feel wrongly.
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But my lord, when we addressed this issue a few years ago, didn’t you argue the other side?” He said, “That’s true, but when I get more evidence I sometimes change my mind. What do you do?
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Practical men who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influence, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist. Madmen in authority, who hear voices in the air, are distilling their frenzy from some academic scribbler of a few years back.
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When the final result is expected to be a compromise, it is often prudent to start from an extreme position.
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I work for a Government I despise for ends I think criminal.
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We will not have any more crashes in our time.
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The power to become habituated to his surroundings is a marked characteristic of mankind.
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Nothing mattered except states of mind, chiefly our own.
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The right remedy for the trade cycle is not to be found in abolishing booms and thus keeping us permanently in a semi-slump; but in abolishing slumps and thus keeping us permanently in a quasi-boom.
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Chess is a cure for headaches.
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Most men love money and security more, and creation and construction less, as they get older.
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When the facts change, I change my mind.
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The love of money as a possession. Will be recognised for what it is, a somewhat disgusting morbidity.
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