The expected never happens; it is the unexpected always.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES
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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The expected never happens; it is the unexpected always.
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If you owe your bank manager a thousand pounds, you are at his mercy. If you owe him a million pounds, he is at your mercy.
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Dangerous acts can be done safely in a community which thinks and feels rightly, which would be the way to hell if they were executed by those who think and feel wrongly.
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To suggest social action for the public good to the city London is like discussing The Origin of Species to a Bishop sixty years ago.
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When I find new information I change my mind; What do you do?
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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 right remedy for the trade cycle is not to be found in abolishing booms and thus keeping us permanently in a semi-slump; but in abolishing slumps and thus keeping us permanently in a quasi-boom.
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I think that Capitalism, wisely managed, can probably be made more efficient for attaining economic ends than any alternative system yet in sight, but that in itself is in many ways extremely objectionable.
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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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If you owe your bank a hundred pounds, you have a problem. But if you owe a million, it has.
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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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Successful investing is anticipating the anticipations of others.
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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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Chess is a cure for headaches.
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Nothing mattered except states of mind, chiefly our own.
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I conceive, therefore, that a somewhat comprehensive socialisation of investment will prove the means of securing an approximation to full employment.
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