Words ought to be a little wild, for they are the assault of thoughts on the unthinking.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNESThe 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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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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Everything is always decided for reasons other than the real merits of the case.
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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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Americans are apt to be unduly interested in discovering what average opinion believes average opinion to be.
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When I find new information I change my mind; What do you do?
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Logic , like lyrical poetry , is no employment for the middle-aged.
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I believe myself to be writing a book on economic theory which will largely revolutionize – not, I suppose, at once but in the course of the next ten years – the way the world thinks about economic problems.
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If we consistently act on the optimistic hypothesis, this hypothesis will tend to be realised; whilst by acting on the pessimistic hypothesis we can keep ourselves for ever in the pit of want.
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Nothing mattered except states of mind, chiefly our own.
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Successful investing is anticipating the anticipations of others.
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By this means (fractional reserve banking) government may secretly and unobserved, confiscate the wealth of the people, and not one man in a million will detect the theft.
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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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Whenever you save five shillings you put a man out of work for a day.
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The boom, not the slump, is the right time for austerity at the Treasury.
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Like all his type, Newton was wholly aloof from women.
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