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It would not be foolish to contemplate the possibility of a far greater progress still.

John Maynard Keynes

If 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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Calculation Human Nature Result Temptation
The study of economics does not seem to require any specialised gifts of an unusually high order.
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Economics Gift Order Special Study
It is ideas, not vested interests, which are dangerous for good or evil.
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Dangerous Evil Goodness Ideas
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
The key to selecting the winner isn’t choosing the face you think is the most beautiful but rather the face other people will pick
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Face People Selection Thinking Winner
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
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
For my own part, I believe that there is social and psychological justification for significant inequalities of incomes and wealth.
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Believe Income Justification Social Wealth
Morally and philosophically I find myself in agreement with virtually the whole of it: and not only in agreement with it, but in deeply moved agreement.
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Agreement Move Philosophy Virtual
All production is for the purpose of ultimately satisfying a consumer.
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Consumer Purpose Satisfaction
When the final result is expected to be a compromise, it is often prudent to start from an extreme position.
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Compromise Expectation Final Position Result
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
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
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 love of money as a possession. Will be recognised for what it is, a somewhat disgusting morbidity.
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Disgusting Love Money Possession Recognition
Everything is always decided for reasons other than the real merits of the case.
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Case Decision Reality Reason

It would not be foolish to contemplate the possibility of a far greater progress still.

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