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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

Everything is always decided for reasons other than the real merits of the case.
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Case Decision Reality Reason
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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Experience Knowledge Life Love Objective Principle
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
When somebody persuades me I am wrong, I change my mind.
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Change Mindset Myself Persuade Wrong
I believe myself to be writing a book on economic theory which will largely revolutionize – not, I suppose, at once but in the course of the next ten years – the way the world thinks about economic problems.
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Believe Economics Problem Revolution Thinking World Writing
It’s not bringing in the new ideas that’s so hard; it’s getting rid of the old ones.
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Hard Ideas Old Oneself
Should government refrain from regulation (taxation), the worthlessness of the money becomes apparent and the fraud can no longer be concealed.
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Government Hide Mistake Money
It is ideas, not vested interests, which are dangerous for good or evil.
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Dangerous Evil Goodness Ideas
Once doubt begins it spreads rapidly.
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Beginning Doubt Fast Spread
The study of economics does not seem to require any specialised gifts of an unusually high order.
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Economics Gift Order Special Study
When my information changes, I alter my conclusions. What do you do, sir?
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Change Conclusion Information Yourself
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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Bank Known Myself People Understand University
The political problem of mankind is to combine three things: economic efficiency, social justice and individual liberty.
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Economy Kind Liberty Man Politics Problem Society
I conceive, therefore, that a somewhat comprehensive socialisation of investment will prove the means of securing an approximation to full employment.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES

Employment Evidence Investment Myself Social
One blames politicians, not for inconsistency but for obstinacy. They are the interpreters, not the masters, of our fate. It is their job, in fact, to register the fact accomplished.
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Accomplishment Blame Fact Master Obstinate Politician
The Economic Problem, the problem of want and poverty and the economic struggle between classes and nations, is nothing but a frightful muddle, a transitory and unnecessary muddle.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES

Economics Nation Necessary Poverty Problem Struggle

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