Everything is always decided for reasons other than the real merits of the case.
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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Conservatism leads nowhere; it satisfies no ideal.
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The study of economics does not seem to require any specialised gifts of an unusually high order.
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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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The boom, not the slump, is the right time for austerity at the Treasury.
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Logic , like lyrical poetry , is no employment for the middle-aged.
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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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There is no intrinsic reason for the scarcity of capital.
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One blames politicians, not for inconsistency but for obstinacy. They are the interpreters, not the masters, of our fate. It is their job, in fact, to register the fact accomplished.
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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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I am myself impressed by the great social advantages of increasing the stock of capital until it ceases to be scarce.
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If we consistently act on the optimistic hypothesis, this hypothesis will tend to be realised; whilst by acting on the pessimistic hypothesis we can keep ourselves for ever in the pit of want.
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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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If human nature felt no temptation to take a chance there might not be much investment merely as a result of cold calculation.
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Ideas shape the course of history.
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It is the long-term investor, who will in practice come in for the most criticism… For it is the essence of his behavior that he should be eccentric, unconventional, and rash in the eyes of average opinion.
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