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The forces of the nineteenth century have run their course and are exhausted.

John Maynard Keynes

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Once we allow ourselves to be disobedient to the test of an accountant’s profit, we have begun to change our civilization.
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Allow Beginning Change Civilization Disobedient Profit
The disruptive powers of excessive national fecundity may have played a greater part in bursting the bonds of convention than either the power of ideas or the errors of autocracy.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES

Error Excessive Ideas National Power
Conservatism leads nowhere; it satisfies no ideal.
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Conservatism Ideal Satisfaction
By a continuing process of inflation, government can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens.
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Citizenship Important Inflation Process Secret
Gold is a relic from a time when government’s were less trustworthy in these matters (currency debasement) than they are now.
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Currency Gold Government Time Trust
I am sure that the power of vested interests is vastly exaggerated compared with the gradual encroachment of ideas.
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Ideas Interest Myself Power
When the facts change, I change my mind.
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Change Fact Inspirational Mindset Myself Open
The idea behind stamped money is sound.
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Ideas Money Sound Stamp
Everything is always decided for reasons other than the real merits of the case.
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Case Decision Reality Reason
A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind.
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History Mindset Opinion Study
If human nature felt no temptation to take a chance there might not be much investment merely as a result of cold calculation.
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Calculation Human Nature Result Temptation
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
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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Destruction Growth Investment Liquid World
It is astonishing what foolish things one can temporarily believe if one thinks too long alone, particularly in economics.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES

Believe Economics Fools Temporary
The numeric system was invented to help man to put order in the chaos of the world.
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Chaos Help Invention Man System World
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

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