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What an extraordinary episode in the economic progress of man that age was which came to an end in August, 1914!

John Maynard Keynes

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The atomic hypothesis which had worked so splendidly in Physics breaks down in Psychics.
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Break Physics Splendid Work
It is better that a man should tyrannize over his bank balance than over his fellow-citizens.
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Balance Bank Better Citizenship Man
There is nothing so disastrous as a rational investment policy in an irrational world.
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Disaster Investment Rational World
Economics is a very dangerous science.
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Dangerous Economics Science
The markets are moved by animal spirits, and not by reason.
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Animal Market Move Reason Spirit
Chess is a cure for headaches.
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Chess Game Head Pain
There is no subtler, no surer means of overturning the existing basis of society than to debauch the currency.
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Currency Existence Subtle Sure
I work for a Government I despise for ends I think criminal.
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Crime End Government Myself Work
The importance of money flows from it being a link between the present and the future.
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Future Importance Money Present
It would be foolish, in forming our expectations, to attach great weight to matters which are very uncertain.
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Attachment Certain Expectation Fools
It has been pointed out already that no knowledge of probabilities, less in degree than certainty, helps us to know what conclusions are true, and that there is no direct relation between the truth of a proposition and its probability. Probability begins and ends with probability.
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Direct Knowledge Point Probability True
If you owe your bank a hundred pounds, you have a problem. But if you owe a million, it has.
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Bank Problem Wealth Yourself
One’s knowledge and experience are definitely limited and there are seldom more than two or three enterprises at any given time in which I personally feel myself entitled to put full confidence.
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Confidence Enterprise Experience Knowledge Personal
A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind.
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There is no intrinsic reason for the scarcity of capital.
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Capital Reason Scarcity
The immense accumulations of fixed capital which, to the great benefit of mankind, were built up during the half century before the war, could never have come about in a Society where wealth was divided equitably.
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Benefit Capital Division Greatness Kind Man Society War Wealth

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