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The important thing for Government is not to do things which individuals are doing already, and to do them a little better or a little worse; but to do those things which at present are not done at all.

John Maynard Keynes

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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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The love of money as a possession. Will be recognised for what it is, a somewhat disgusting morbidity.
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I do not know which makes a man more conservative – to know nothing but the present, or nothing but the past.
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Should government refrain from regulation (taxation), the worthlessness of the money becomes apparent and the fraud can no longer be concealed.
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Chess is a cure for headaches.
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The forces of the nineteenth century have run their course and are exhausted.
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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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The expected never happens; it is the unexpected always.
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