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The biggest problem is not to let people accept new ideas, but to let them forget the old ones.

John Maynard Keynes

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
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
Conservatism leads nowhere; it satisfies no ideal.
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Conservatism Ideal Satisfaction
Ideas shape the course of history.
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Course History Ideas Shape
If you owe your bank a hundred pounds, you have a problem. But if you owe a million, it has.
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Bank Problem Wealth Yourself
It would not be foolish to contemplate the possibility of a far greater progress still.
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Foolish Greatness Possible Progress
Canada is a place of infinite promise. We like the people, and if one ever had to emigrate, this would be the destination, not the U.S.A. The hills, lakes and forests make it a place of peace and repose of the mind, such as one never finds in the U.S.A.
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Destination Infinite Nature Peace Place Promise
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
We will not have any more crashes in our time.
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Crash Ourselves Time
The boom, not the slump, is the right time for austerity at the Treasury.
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Right Time Treasure
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
All production is for the purpose of ultimately satisfying a consumer.
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Consumer Purpose Satisfaction
Worldly wisdom teaches that it is better for reputation to fail conventionally than to succeed unconventionally.
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Convention Failure Teaching Wisdom World
If you owe your bank manager a thousand pounds, you are at his mercy. If you owe him a million pounds, he is at your mercy.
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Bank Manager Mercy Rich Yourself
Markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent.
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Fade Market Yourself

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