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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

It is astonishing what foolish things one can temporarily believe if one thinks too long alone, particularly in economics.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES

Believe Economics Fools Temporary
Economists must leave to Adam Smith alone the glory of the Quarto, must pluck the day, fling pamphlets into the wind, write always sub specie temporis , and achieve immortality by accident, if at all.
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Accident Achievement Economist Immortal Writing
I work for a Government I despise for ends I think criminal.
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Crime End Government Myself Work
It is better to be roughly right than precisely wrong.
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Better Choice Right Wrong
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
Successful investing is anticipating the anticipations of others.
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Anticipation Investment Success
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

Enjoyment Enough Labor Poster Round
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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Benefit Capital Division Greatness Kind Man Society War Wealth
Investment based on genuine long-term expectations is so difficult today as to be scarcely practicable.
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Difficult Expectation Investment Scarce
The power to become habituated to his surroundings is a marked characteristic of mankind.
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Character Habitat Kind Man Power Surround
Well, when I get new information, I rethink my position. What, sir, do you do with new information?
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Information Myself Position Thinking Yourself
The friends of gold will have to be extremely wise and moderate if they are to avoid a revolution.
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Avoid Friendship Gold Revolution Wisdom
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.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES

Believe Economics Problem Revolution Thinking World Writing
Chess is a cure for headaches.
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Chess Game Head Pain
But my lord, when we addressed this issue a few years ago, didn’t you argue the other side?” He said, “That’s true, but when I get more evidence I sometimes change my mind. What do you do?
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Address Change Evidence Mindset
All production is for the purpose of ultimately satisfying a consumer.
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Consumer Purpose Satisfaction

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