When somebody persuades me I am wrong, I change my mind.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNESObstinacy can bring only a penalty and no reward.
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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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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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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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Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent.
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The study of economics does not seem to require any specialised gifts of an unusually high order.
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Words ought to be a little wild, for they are the assault of thoughts on the unthinking.
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In the long run we are all dead.
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The businessman is only tolerable so long as his gains can be held to bear some relation to what, roughly and in some sense, his activities have contributed to society.
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It is better to be roughly right than precisely wrong.
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Economics is a very dangerous science.
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It is better that a man should tyrannize over his bank balance than over his fellow-citizens.
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The disruptive powers of excessive national fecundity may have played a greater part in bursting the bonds of convention than either the power of ideas or the errors of autocracy.
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Men will not always die quietly.
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Most men love money and security more, and creation and construction less, as they get older.
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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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