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.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNESWe will not have any more crashes in our time.
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Words ought to be a little wild, for they are the assault of thoughts on the unthinking.
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I am sure that the power of vested interests is vastly exaggerated compared with the gradual encroachment of ideas.
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Ideas shape the course of history.
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This long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead. Economists set themselves too easy, too useless a task if in tempestuous seasons they can only tell us that when the storm is long past the ocean is flat again.
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It is a good thing to make mistakes so long as you’re found out quickly.
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It is better that a man should tyrannize over his bank balance than over his fellow-citizens.
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A speculator is one who runs risks of which he is aware and an investor is one who runs risks of which he is unaware.
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Americans are apt to be unduly interested in discovering what average opinion believes average opinion to be.
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Perhaps it is historically true that no order of society ever perishes save by its own hand.
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Everything is always decided for reasons other than the real merits of the case.
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If economists could manage to get themselves thought of as humble, competent people on a level with dentists, that would be splendid.
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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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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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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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In truth, the gold standard is already a barbarous relic.
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