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It is the long-term investor, who will in practice come in for the most criticism… For it is the essence of his behavior that he should be eccentric, unconventional, and rash in the eyes of average opinion.

John Maynard Keynes

Ideas, knowledge, art, hospitality, travel – these are things which should in their nature be international. But let goods be homespun whenever it is reasonably and conveniently possible and above all let finance be primarily national.
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Art Finance Hospitality Ideas International Knowledge National Possible
Never in history was there a method devised of such efficacy for setting each country’s advantage at variance with its neighbours’ as the international gold (or, formerly, silver) standard.
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Gold History International Method Standard
I find myself more and more relying for a solution of our problems on the invisible hand which I tried to eject from economic thinking twenty years ago.
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Finding Hands Invisible Myself Solution Trying
The duty of “saving” became nine-tenths of virtue and the growth of the cake the object of true religion.
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Growth Object Religion Save True Virtue
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 important thing for Government is not to do things which individuals are doing already, and to do them a little better or a little worse; but to do those things which at present are not done at all.
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Better Government Important Individual Present Worst
The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping from the old ones.
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Deep Difficult Effort Escape Ideas Inspirational Lying Old
I believe that the future will learn more from the spirit of Gesell than from that of Marx .
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Believe Future Learning Myself
The disruptive powers of excessive national fecundity may have played a greater part in bursting the bonds of convention than either the power of ideas or the errors of autocracy.
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Error Excessive Ideas National Power
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 forces of the nineteenth century have run their course and are exhausted.
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Course Exhaust Focus Run
Economics is a very dangerous science.
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Dangerous Economics Science
The decadent international but individualistic capitalism in the hands of which we found ourselves after the war is not a success. It is not intelligent. It is not beautiful. It is not just. It is not virtuous. And it doesn’t deliver the goods.
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Capital Deliver Goodness International Success Virtue War
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 is astonishing what foolish things one can temporarily believe if one thinks too long alone, particularly in economics.
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Believe Economics Fools Temporary
Thus, the weight of my criticism is directed against the inadequacy of the theoretical foundations of the laissez-faire doctrine upon which I was brought up and for many years I taught
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Criticism Foundation Inadequate Weight

It is the long-term investor, who will in practice come in for the most criticism… For it is the essence of his behavior that he should be eccentric, unconventional, and rash in the eyes of average opinion.

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It is the long-term investor, who will in practice come in for the most criticism… For it is the essence of his behavior that he should be eccentric, unconventional, and rash in the eyes of average opinion.

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