The biggest problem is not to let people accept new ideas, but to let them forget the old ones.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNESThe forces of the nineteenth century have run their course and are exhausted.
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The political problem of mankind is to combine three things: economic efficiency, social justice and individual liberty.
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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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All the political parties alike have their origins in past ideas and not in new ideas and none more conspicuously so than the Marxists .
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If economists could manage to get themselves thought of as humble, competent people on a level with dentists, that would be splendid.
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The importance of money flows from it being a link between the present and the future.
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The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is generally understood. Indeed, the world is ruled by little else.
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It is the duty of the long-term investor to endure great losses with equanimity.
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I believe that the future will learn more from the spirit of Gesell than from that of Marx .
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Ideas shape the course of history.
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How long will it be necessary to pay City men so entirely out of proportion to what other servants of society commonly receive for performing social services not less useful or difficult?
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The love of money as a possession. Will be recognised for what it is, a somewhat disgusting morbidity.
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Experience shows that what happens is always the thing against which one has not made provision in advance.
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It is a good thing to make mistakes so long as you’re found out quickly.
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All production is for the purpose of ultimately satisfying a consumer.
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When my information changes, I alter my conclusions. What do you do, sir?
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