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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

In truth, the gold standard is already a barbarous relic.
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Gold Standard Truth
The power to become habituated to his surroundings is a marked characteristic of mankind.
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Character Habitat Kind Man Power Surround
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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Essence Investor Opinion Practice Willing
Like all his type, Newton was wholly aloof from women.
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Scientist Type Woman
The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping the old ones, which ramify, for those brought up as most of us have been, into every corner of our minds.
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Difficult Escape Ideas Lying Mindset Ourselves
When the facts change, I change my mind.
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Change Fact Inspirational Mindset Myself Open
As time goes on, I get more and more convinced that the right method of investment is to put fairly large sums into enterprises which one thinks one knows something about and in the management of which one thoroughly believes.
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Believe Fair Investment Management Myself Right Time
All production is for the purpose of ultimately satisfying a consumer.
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Consumer Purpose Satisfaction
The forces of the nineteenth century have run their course and are exhausted.
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Course Exhaust Focus Run
The outstanding faults of the economic society in which we live are its failure to provide for full employment and its arbitrary and inequitable distribution of wealth and incomes.
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Distribution Economy Income Mistake Outstanding Wealth
The atomic hypothesis which had worked so splendidly in Physics breaks down in Psychics.
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Break Physics Splendid Work
The study of economics does not seem to require any specialised gifts of an unusually high order.
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Economics Gift Order Special Study
I’d rather be vaguely right than precisely wrong.
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Choice Myself Right Wrong
The day is not far off when the economic problem will take the back seat where it belongs, and the arena of the heart and the head will be occupied or reoccupied, by our real problems – the problems of life and of human relations, of creation and behavior and religion.
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Behavior Creation Economics Head Heart Problem Religion
Ideas shape the course of history.
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Course History Ideas Shape
Men will not always die quietly.
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Death Man Quiet

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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