I conceive, therefore, that a somewhat comprehensive socialisation of investment will prove the means of securing an approximation to full employment.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNESThe treasury could fill old bottles with banknotes and bury them, and leave it to private enterprises on well-tried principles of laissez-faire to dig the notes up again.
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When the facts change, I change my mind.
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I’d rather be vaguely right than precisely wrong.
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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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For my own part, I believe that there is social and psychological justification for significant inequalities of incomes and wealth.
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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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A speculator is one who runs risks of which he is aware and an investor is one who runs risks of which he is unaware.
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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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But the dreams of designing diplomats do not always prosper, and we must trust the future .
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It is astonishing what foolish things one can temporarily believe if one thinks too long alone, particularly in economics.
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Men will not always die quietly.
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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 biggest problem is not to let people accept new ideas, but to let them forget the old ones.
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The forces of the nineteenth century have run their course and are exhausted.
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The numeric system was invented to help man to put order in the chaos of the world.
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The treasury could fill old bottles with banknotes and bury them, and leave it to private enterprises on well-tried principles of laissez-faire to dig the notes up again.
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