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

John Maynard Keynes

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The numeric system was invented to help man to put order in the chaos of the world.
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The glory of the nation you love is a desirable end, – but generally to be obtained at your neighbor’s expense.
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Desire Glory Love Nation Yourself
In the long run we are all dead.
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Ideas, knowledge, art, hospitality, travel – these are things which should in their nature be international. But let goods be homespun whenever it is reasonably and conveniently possible and above all let finance be primarily national.
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We will not have any more crashes in our time.
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Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone.
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Like all his type, Newton was wholly aloof from women.
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The important thing for Government is not to do things which individuals are doing already, and to do them a little better or a little worse; but to do those things which at present are not done at all.
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The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping from the old ones.
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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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But whilst there may be intrinsic reasons for the scarcity of land, there are no intrinsic reasons for the scarcity of capital.
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The decadent international but individualistic capitalism in the hands of which we found ourselves after the war is not a success. It is not intelligent. It is not beautiful. It is not just. It is not virtuous. And it doesn’t deliver the goods.
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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
Nothing mattered except states of mind, chiefly our own.
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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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Logic , like lyrical poetry , is no employment for the middle-aged.
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It is a good thing to make mistakes so long as you’re found out quickly.
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Ideas shape the course of history.
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All production is for the purpose of ultimately satisfying a consumer.
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It would not be foolish to contemplate the possibility of a far greater progress still.
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The outstanding faults of the economic society in which we live are its failure to provide for full employment and its arbitrary and inequitable distribution of wealth and incomes.
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Americans are apt to be unduly interested in discovering what average opinion believes average opinion to be.
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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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To our generation Einstein has been made to become a double symbol – a symbol of the mind travelling in the cold regions of space, and a symbol of the brave and generous outcast, pure in heart and cheerful of spirit.
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Brave Cheerful Generation Heart Mindset Symbol Traveling
Perhaps it is historically true that no order of society ever perishes save by its own hand.
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Successful investing is anticipating the anticipations of others.
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The division of the spoils between the victors will also provide employment for a powerful office, whose doorsteps the greedy adventurers and jealous concession hunters of twenty or thirty nations will crowd and defile.
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