The study of economics does not seem to require any specialised gifts of an unusually high order.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNESThe difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping from the old ones.
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The markets are moved by animal spirits, and not by reason.
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I am myself impressed by the great social advantages of increasing the stock of capital until it ceases to be scarce.
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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 immense accumulations of fixed capital which, to the great benefit of mankind, were built up during the half century before the war, could never have come about in a Society where wealth was divided equitably.
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Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone.
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I know of only three people who really understand money. A professor at another university. One of my students. And a rather junior clerk at the Bank of England.
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We 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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The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping from the old ones.
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There is no harm in being sometimes wrong – especially if one is promptly found out.
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Perhaps a day might come when there would be at last be enough to go round, and when posterity could enter into the enjoyment of our labors.
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When I find new information I change my mind; What do you do?
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The love of money as a possession. Will be recognised for what it is, a somewhat disgusting morbidity.
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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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I was suffering from my chronic delusion that one good share is safer than ten bad ones, and I am always forgetting that hardly anyone else shares this particular delusion.
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