When the capital development of a country becomes a by-product of the activities of a casino, the job is likely to be ill-done.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNESTo 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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To our generation Einstein has been made to become a double symbol – a symbol of the mind travelling in the cold regions of space, and a symbol of the brave and generous outcast, pure in heart and cheerful of spirit.
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When I find new information I change my mind; What do you do?
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I am myself impressed by the great social advantages of increasing the stock of capital until it ceases to be scarce.
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The atomic hypothesis which had worked so splendidly in Physics breaks down in Psychics.
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The division of the spoils between the victors will also provide employment for a powerful office, whose doorsteps the greedy adventurers and jealous concession hunters of twenty or thirty nations will crowd and defile.
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All production is for the purpose of ultimately satisfying a consumer.
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But the dreams of designing diplomats do not always prosper, and we must trust the future .
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There is no intrinsic reason for the scarcity of capital.
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In the long run we are all dead.
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The markets are moved by animal spirits, and not by reason.
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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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The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward.
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Morally and philosophically I find myself in agreement with virtually the whole of it: and not only in agreement with it, but in deeply moved agreement.
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The power to become habituated to his surroundings and therefore to no longer be grateful for what is good in it is a marked characteristic of mankind and needs to be fought against if a person is to be happy.
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I am sure that the power of vested interests is vastly exaggerated compared with the gradual encroachment of ideas.
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