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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

There is nothing so disastrous as a rational investment policy in an irrational world.
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Disaster Investment Rational World
The political problem of mankind is to combine three things: economic efficiency, social justice and individual liberty.
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Economy Kind Liberty Man Politics Problem Society
It is a mistake to think that one limits one’s risk by spreading too much between enterprises about which one knows little and has no reason for special confidence.
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Confidence Limitation Mistake Reason Special Thinking
When my information changes, I alter my conclusions. What do you do, sir?
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Change Conclusion Information Yourself
We will not have any more crashes in our time.
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Crash Ourselves Time
For my own part, I believe that there is social and psychological justification for significant inequalities of incomes and wealth.
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Believe Income Justification Social Wealth
Long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead.
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Affair Death Guide
It’s not bringing in the new ideas that’s so hard; it’s getting rid of the old ones.
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Hard Ideas Old Oneself
The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is generally understood. Indeed, the world is ruled by little else.
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Easy Economist Ideas Politics Rule World
As time goes on, I get more and more convinced that the right method of investment is to put fairly large sums into enterprises which one thinks one knows something about and in the management of which one thoroughly believes.
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Believe Fair Investment Management Myself Right Time
Pyramid-building, earthquakes, even wars may serve to increase wealth, if the education of our statesmen on the principles of the classical economics stands in the way of anything better.
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Build Increase War Wealth
The importance of money flows from it being a link between the present and the future.
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Future Importance Money Present
The boom, not the slump, is the right time for austerity at the Treasury.
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Right Time Treasure
How long will it be necessary to pay City men so entirely out of proportion to what other servants of society commonly receive for performing social services not less useful or difficult?
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Difficult Necessary Pay Performance Service
But the dreams of designing diplomats do not always prosper, and we must trust the future .
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Design Dream Future Prosper Trust
Obstinacy can bring only a penalty and no reward.
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Obstinate Penalty Reward
What an extraordinary episode in the economic progress of man that age was which came to an end in August, 1914!
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Age Episode Man Progress
I am sure that the power of vested interests is vastly exaggerated compared with the gradual encroachment of ideas.
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Ideas Interest Myself Power
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
Investing is an activity of forecasting the yield over the life of the asset; speculation is the activity of forecasting the psychology of the market.
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Forecast Investment Marketing Prediction Speculation
The love of money as a possession. Will be recognised for what it is, a somewhat disgusting morbidity.
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Disgusting Love Money Possession Recognition
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
The forces of the nineteenth century have run their course and are exhausted.
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Course Exhaust Focus Run
In truth, the gold standard is already a barbarous relic.
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Gold Standard Truth
Chess is a cure for headaches.
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Chess Game Head Pain
The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping the old ones, which ramify, for those brought up as most of us have been, into every corner of our minds.
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Difficult Escape Ideas Lying Mindset Ourselves
Americans are apt to be unduly interested in discovering what average opinion believes average opinion to be.
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Average Believe Discover Interest Opinion

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