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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.

John Maynard Keynes

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Once we allow ourselves to be disobedient to the test of an accountant’s profit, we have begun to change our civilization.
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There is nothing so disastrous as a rational investment policy in an irrational world.
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I am myself impressed by the great social advantages of increasing the stock of capital until it ceases to be scarce.
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All production is for the purpose of ultimately satisfying a consumer.
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The division of the spoils between the victors will also provide employment for a powerful office, whose doorsteps the greedy adventurers and jealous concession hunters of twenty or thirty nations will crowd and defile.
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An investor who proposes to ignore near-term market fluctuations needs greater resources for safety and must not operate on so large a scale, if at all, with borrowed money.
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Chess is a cure for headaches.
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I am sure that the power of vested interests is vastly exaggerated compared with the gradual encroachment of ideas.
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Worldly wisdom teaches that it is better for reputation to fail conventionally than to succeed unconventionally.
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Nothing mattered except states of mind, chiefly our own.
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Words ought to be a little wild, for they are the assault of thoughts on the unthinking.
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The businessman is only tolerable so long as his gains can be held to bear some relation to what, roughly and in some sense, his activities have contributed to society.
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It is better to be roughly right than precisely wrong.
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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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Gold is a relic from a time when government’s were less trustworthy in these matters (currency debasement) than they are now.
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The political problem of mankind is to combine three things: economic efficiency, social justice and individual liberty.
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