The political problem of mankind is to combine three things: economic efficiency, social justice and individual liberty.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNESThe avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward.
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Chess is a cure for headaches.
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All production is for the purpose of ultimately satisfying a consumer.
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To suggest social action for the public good to the city London is like discussing The Origin of Species to a Bishop sixty years ago.
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Most men love money and security more, and creation and construction less, as they get older.
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Whenever you save five shillings you put a man out of work for a day.
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It is ideas, not vested interests, which are dangerous for good or evil.
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Capitalism is the extraordinary belief that the nastiest of men, for the nastiest of reasons, will somehow work for the benefit of us all.
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Economists must leave to Adam Smith alone the glory of the Quarto, must pluck the day, fling pamphlets into the wind, write always sub specie temporis , and achieve immortality by accident, if at all.
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A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind.
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The Economic Problem, the problem of want and poverty and the economic struggle between classes and nations, is nothing but a frightful muddle, a transitory and unnecessary muddle.
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Men will not always die quietly.
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The outstanding faults of the economic society in which we live are its failure to provide for full employment and its arbitrary and inequitable distribution of wealth and incomes.
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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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The expected never happens; it is the unexpected always.
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It is better to be roughly right than precisely wrong.
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