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Investment based on genuine long-term expectations is so difficult today as to be scarcely practicable.

John Maynard Keynes

In truth, the gold standard is already a barbarous relic.
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Gold Standard Truth
When the capital development of a country becomes a by-product of the activities of a casino, the job is likely to be ill-done.
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Activity Country Development Job
It is a good thing to make mistakes so long as you’re found out quickly.
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Finding Goodness Mistake Quick Yourself
The numeric system was invented to help man to put order in the chaos of the world.
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Chaos Help Invention Man System World
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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Crowd Division Employment Nation Provide Spoil
We will not have any more crashes in our time.
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Crash Ourselves Time
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
Economics is a very dangerous science.
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Dangerous Economics Science
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
Once doubt begins it spreads rapidly.
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Beginning Doubt Fast Spread
Logic , like lyrical poetry , is no employment for the middle-aged.
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Age Employment Logic Lyrics Poetry
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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Believe Economics Problem Revolution Thinking World Writing
Experience shows that what happens is always the thing against which one has not made provision in advance.
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Advance Experience Provision
It would not be foolish to contemplate the possibility of a far greater progress still.
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Foolish Greatness Possible Progress
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
Perhaps it is historically true that no order of society ever perishes save by its own hand.
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Hands History Save Society True

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