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The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward.

John Maynard Keynes

Economics is a very dangerous science.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES

Dangerous Economics Science
Words ought to be a little wild, for they are the assault of thoughts on the unthinking.
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Mistake Thinking Wild Word
Everything is always decided for reasons other than the real merits of the case.
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Case Decision Reality Reason
I work for a Government I despise for ends I think criminal.
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Crime End Government Myself Work
When the accumulation of wealth is no longer of high social importance, there will be great changes in the code of morals.
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Change Code Greatness Importance Moral Social Wealth
It is astonishing what foolish things one can temporarily believe if one thinks too long alone, particularly in economics.
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Believe Economics Fools Temporary
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
A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind.
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History Mindset Opinion Study
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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Address Change Evidence Mindset
It is Enterprise which build and improves the world’s possessions. If Enterprise is afoot, Wealth accumulates whatever may be happening to Thrift; and if Enterprise is asleep, Wealth decays, whatever Thrift may be doing.
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Build Enterprise Improve Possession Sleep Thrift Wealth World
The friends of gold will have to be extremely wise and moderate if they are to avoid a revolution.
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Avoid Friendship Gold Revolution Wisdom
If you owe your bank manager a thousand pounds, you are at his mercy. If you owe him a million pounds, he is at your mercy.
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Bank Manager Mercy Rich Yourself
When I find new information I change my mind; What do you do?
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Change Finding Information Mindset
I am sure that the power of vested interests is vastly exaggerated compared with the gradual encroachment of ideas.
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Ideas Interest Myself Power
It is better to be roughly right than precisely wrong.
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Better Choice Right Wrong
The idea behind stamped money is sound.
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Ideas Money Sound Stamp

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