There is no intrinsic reason for the scarcity of capital.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNESIdeas shape the course of history.
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The boom, not the slump, is the right time for austerity at the Treasury.
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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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All production is for the purpose of ultimately satisfying a consumer.
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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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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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I’d rather be vaguely right than precisely wrong.
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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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When the facts change, I change my mind.
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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 principle objectives in life are love, the creation and enjoyment if aesthetic experience, the pursuit of knowledge. Love comes a long way first.
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It is the duty of the long-term investor to endure great losses with equanimity.
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It’s not bringing in the new ideas that’s so hard; it’s getting rid of the old ones.
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Thus, the weight of my criticism is directed against the inadequacy of the theoretical foundations of the laissez-faire doctrine upon which I was brought up and for many years I taught
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How long will it be necessary to pay City men so entirely out of proportion to what other servants of society commonly receive for performing social services not less useful or difficult?
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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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