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This long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead. Economists set themselves too easy, too useless a task if in tempestuous seasons they can only tell us that when the storm is long past the ocean is flat again.

John Maynard Keynes

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In the long run we are all dead.
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When the final result is expected to be a compromise, it is often prudent to start from an extreme position.
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The social object of skilled investment should be to defeat the dark forces of time and ignorance which envelope our future.
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When the accumulation of wealth is no longer of high social importance, there will be great changes in the code of morals.
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Logic , like lyrical poetry , is no employment for the middle-aged.
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What an extraordinary episode in the economic progress of man that age was which came to an end in August, 1914!
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The idea behind stamped money is sound.
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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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A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind.
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Should government refrain from regulation (taxation), the worthlessness of the money becomes apparent and the fraud can no longer be concealed.
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Whenever you save five shillings you put a man out of work for a day.
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Obstinacy can bring only a penalty and no reward.
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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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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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The importance of money flows from it being a link between the present and the future.
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