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I do not know which makes a man more conservative – to know nothing but the present, or nothing but the past.

John Maynard Keynes

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The biggest problem is not to let people accept new ideas, but to let them forget the old ones.
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Acceptance Big Forget Ideas Old People Problem
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
Chess is a cure for headaches.
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Chess Game Head Pain
Practical men who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influence, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist. Madmen in authority, who hear voices in the air, are distilling their frenzy from some academic scribbler of a few years back.
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Believe Economy Intellectual Man Myself Practice Quite Slave
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
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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Agreement Move Philosophy Virtual
When my information changes, I alter my conclusions. What do you do, sir?
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Change Conclusion Information Yourself
If you owe your bank manager a thousand pounds, you are at his mercy. If you owe him a million pounds, he is at your mercy.
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Bank Manager Mercy Rich Yourself
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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Easy Economist Ideas Politics Rule World
One’s knowledge and experience are definitely limited and there are seldom more than two or three enterprises at any given time in which I personally feel myself entitled to put full confidence.
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Confidence Enterprise Experience Knowledge Personal
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
In truth, the gold standard is already a barbarous relic.
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Gold Standard Truth
Nothing mattered except states of mind, chiefly our own.
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Chief Exception Ourselves State
Conservatism leads nowhere; it satisfies no ideal.
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Conservatism Ideal Satisfaction
The day is not far off when the economic problem will take the back seat where it belongs, and the arena of the heart and the head will be occupied or reoccupied, by our real problems – the problems of life and of human relations, of creation and behavior and religion.
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Behavior Creation Economics Head Heart Problem Religion
$John Maynard Keynes Quote - By this means (fractional reserve banking) government may secretly and unobserved, confiscate the wealth of the people, and not one man in a million will detect the theft.$

By this means (fractional reserve banking) government may secretly and unobserved, confiscate the wealth of the people, and not one man in a million will detect the theft.
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Detection Man Mistake Reserve Secret

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