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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.

John Maynard Keynes

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Calculation Human Nature Result Temptation
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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I’d rather be vaguely right than precisely wrong.
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Choice Myself Right Wrong
The expected never happens; it is the unexpected always.
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The glory of the nation you love is a desirable end, – but generally to be obtained at your neighbor’s expense.
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Desire Glory Love Nation Yourself
The atomic hypothesis which had worked so splendidly in Physics breaks down in Psychics.
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Break Physics Splendid Work
It is a good thing to make mistakes so long as you’re found out quickly.
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Finding Goodness Mistake Quick Yourself
I do not know which makes a man more conservative – to know nothing but the present, or nothing but the past.
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Conservatism Known Man Myself Past Present
A sound banker, alas, is not one who foresees danger and avoids it, but one who, when he is ruined, is ruined in a conventional way along with his fellows, so that no one can really blame him.
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Avoid Bank Blame Dangerous Himself Ruin Sound
The boom, not the slump, is the right time for austerity at the Treasury.
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Right Time Treasure
Successful investing is anticipating the anticipations of others.
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Anticipation Investment Success
The treasury could fill old bottles with banknotes and bury them, and leave it to private enterprises on well-tried principles of laissez-faire to dig the notes up again.
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Bury Enterprise Principle Private Treasure
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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Act Dangerous Feeling Hell Thinking Wrong
When I find new information I change my mind; What do you do?
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Change Finding Information Mindset
Well, when I get new information, I rethink my position. What, sir, do you do with new information?
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Information Myself Position Thinking Yourself
When somebody persuades me I am wrong, I change my mind.
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Change Mindset Myself Persuade Wrong

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