When somebody persuades me I am wrong, I change my mind.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNESThis 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.
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When my information changes, I alter my conclusions. What do you do, sir?
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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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Once doubt begins it spreads rapidly.
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The duty of “saving” became nine-tenths of virtue and the growth of the cake the object of true religion.
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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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The disruptive powers of excessive national fecundity may have played a greater part in bursting the bonds of convention than either the power of ideas or the errors of autocracy.
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A sound banker, alas, is not one who foresees danger and avoids it, but one who, when he is ruined, is ruined in a conventional way along with his fellows, so that no one can really blame him.
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There is no subtler, no surer means of overturning the existing basis of society than to debauch the currency.
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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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Worldly wisdom teaches that it is better for reputation to fail conventionally than to succeed unconventionally.
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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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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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I believe myself to be writing a book on economic theory which will largely revolutionize – not, I suppose, at once but in the course of the next ten years – the way the world thinks about economic problems.
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The idea behind stamped money is sound.
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When the facts change, I change my mind.
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