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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.

John Maynard Keynes

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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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Chaos Help Invention Man System World
It is Enterprise which build and improves the world’s possessions. If Enterprise is afoot, Wealth accumulates whatever may be happening to Thrift; and if Enterprise is asleep, Wealth decays, whatever Thrift may be doing.
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Build Enterprise Improve Possession Sleep Thrift Wealth World
The immense accumulations of fixed capital which, to the great benefit of mankind, were built up during the half century before the war, could never have come about in a Society where wealth was divided equitably.
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Benefit Capital Division Greatness Kind Man Society War Wealth
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
The engine which drives enterprise is not thrift, but profit.
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Drive Profit Thrift
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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Brave Cheerful Generation Heart Mindset Symbol Traveling
In the long run we are all dead.
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Death Philosophy Wasted Time
The markets are moved by animal spirits, and not by reason.
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Animal Market Move Reason Spirit
It is investment, i.e. the increased production of material wealth in the shape of capital goods, which alone increases national wealth.
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Capital Investment National Production Wealth
It would be foolish, in forming our expectations, to attach great weight to matters which are very uncertain.
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Attachment Certain Expectation Fools
Everything is always decided for reasons other than the real merits of the case.
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Case Decision Reality Reason
Perhaps a day might come when there would be at last be enough to go round, and when posterity could enter into the enjoyment of our labors.
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Enjoyment Enough Labor Poster Round
The importance of money flows from it being a link between the present and the future.
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Future Importance Money Present
We will not have any more crashes in our time.
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Crash Ourselves Time
It is better to be roughly right than precisely wrong.
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Better Choice Right Wrong
When somebody persuades me I am wrong, I change my mind.
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Change Mindset Myself Persuade Wrong

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