The study of economics does not seem to require any specialised gifts of an unusually high order.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNESNothing mattered except states of mind, chiefly our own.
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But the dreams of designing diplomats do not always prosper, and we must trust the future .
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I was suffering from my chronic delusion that one good share is safer than ten bad ones, and I am always forgetting that hardly anyone else shares this particular delusion.
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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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It economics is a method rather than a doctrine, an apparatus of the mind, a technique of thinking which helps its possessor to draw correct conclusions.
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The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward.
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The atomic hypothesis which had worked so splendidly in Physics breaks down in Psychics.
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There is no intrinsic reason for the scarcity of capital.
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When I find new information I change my mind; What do you do?
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The destruction of the inducement to invest by an excessive liquidity-preference was the outstanding evil, the prime impediment to the growth of wealth, in the ancient and medieval worlds.
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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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Long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead.
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I know of only three people who really understand money. A professor at another university. One of my students. And a rather junior clerk at the Bank of England.
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The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping the old ones, which ramify, for those brought up as most of us have been, into every corner of our minds.
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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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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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