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.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNESObstinacy can bring only a penalty and no reward.
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It is investment, i.e. the increased production of material wealth in the shape of capital goods, which alone increases national wealth.
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There is no intrinsic reason for the scarcity of capital.
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Obstinacy can bring only a penalty and no reward.
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The power to become habituated to his surroundings is a marked characteristic of mankind.
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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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All the political parties alike have their origins in past ideas and not in new ideas and none more conspicuously so than the Marxists .
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Logic , like lyrical poetry , is no employment for the middle-aged.
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Perhaps it is historically true that no order of society ever perishes save by its own hand.
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Well, when I get new information, I rethink my position. What, sir, do you do with new information?
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I’d rather be vaguely right than precisely wrong.
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If we consistently act on the optimistic hypothesis, this hypothesis will tend to be realised; whilst by acting on the pessimistic hypothesis we can keep ourselves for ever in the pit of want.
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What an extraordinary episode in the economic progress of man that age was which came to an end in August, 1914!
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The numeric system was invented to help man to put order in the chaos of the world.
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The forces of the nineteenth century have run their course and are exhausted.
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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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