Government machinery has been described as a marvelous labor saving device which enables ten men to do the work of one.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNESThe forces of the nineteenth century have run their course and are exhausted.
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It is a mistake to think that one limits one’s risk by spreading too much between enterprises about which one knows little and has no reason for special confidence.
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Markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent.
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Chess is a cure for headaches.
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It is ideas, not vested interests, which are dangerous for good or evil.
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When the capital development of a country becomes a by-product of the activities of a casino, the job is likely to be ill-done.
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When somebody persuades me I am wrong, I change my mind.
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Conservatism leads nowhere; it satisfies no ideal.
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Everything is always decided for reasons other than the real merits of the case.
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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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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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I’d rather be vaguely right than precisely wrong.
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We will not have any more crashes in our time.
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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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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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It would not be foolish to contemplate the possibility of a far greater progress still.
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