Government machinery has been described as a marvelous labor saving device which enables ten men to do the work of one.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNESEducation: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent.
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Well, when I get new information, I rethink my position. What, sir, do you do with new information?
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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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When the final result is expected to be a compromise, it is often prudent to start from an extreme position.
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The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping from the old ones.
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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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It is a mistake to think that one limits one’s risk by spreading too much between enterprises about which one knows little and has no reason for special confidence.
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A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind.
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The principle objectives in life are love, the creation and enjoyment if aesthetic experience, the pursuit of knowledge. Love comes a long way first.
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The importance of money flows from it being a link between the present and the future.
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Most men love money and security more, and creation and construction less, as they get older.
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The boom, not the slump, is the right time for austerity at the Treasury.
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Experience shows that what happens is always the thing against which one has not made provision in advance.
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It is investment, i.e. the increased production of material wealth in the shape of capital goods, which alone increases national wealth.
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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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I work for a Government I despise for ends I think criminal.
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