I do not know which makes a man more conservative – to know nothing but the present, or nothing but the past.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNESIf human nature felt no temptation to take a chance there might not be much investment merely as a result of cold calculation.
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The political problem of mankind is to combine three things: economic efficiency, social justice and individual liberty.
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When my information changes, I alter my conclusions. What do you do, sir?
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There is no harm in being sometimes wrong – especially if one is promptly found out.
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The idea behind stamped money is sound.
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It economics is a method rather than a doctrine, an apparatus of the mind, a technique of thinking which helps its possessor to draw correct conclusions.
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The forces of the nineteenth century have run their course and are exhausted.
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It’s not bringing in the new ideas that’s so hard; it’s getting rid of the old ones.
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It is ideas, not vested interests, which are dangerous for good or evil.
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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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The power to become habituated to his surroundings and therefore to no longer be grateful for what is good in it is a marked characteristic of mankind and needs to be fought against if a person is to be happy.
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The businessman is only tolerable so long as his gains can be held to bear some relation to what, roughly and in some sense, his activities have contributed to society.
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The power to become habituated to his surroundings is a marked characteristic of mankind.
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The markets are moved by animal spirits, and not by reason.
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The day is not far off when the economic problem will take the back seat where it belongs, and the arena of the heart and the head will be occupied or reoccupied, by our real problems – the problems of life and of human relations, of creation and behavior and religion.
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When the final result is expected to be a compromise, it is often prudent to start from an extreme position.
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