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Once we allow ourselves to be disobedient to the test of an accountant’s profit, we have begun to change our civilization.

John Maynard Keynes

The engine which drives enterprise is not thrift, but profit.
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Drive Profit Thrift
What an extraordinary episode in the economic progress of man that age was which came to an end in August, 1914!
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Age Episode Man Progress
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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Goodness Gratitude Habitat Happiness Person Power Surrounding
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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Easy Economist Ideas Politics Rule World
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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Belief Capital Goodness Greatness Man Wicket
It is generally agreed that casinos should, in the public interest, be inaccessible and expensive. And perhaps the same is true of Stock Exchanges.
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Expensive Interest Public Stock Market
The social object of skilled investment should be to defeat the dark forces of time and ignorance which envelope our future.
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Envelope Future Ignorance Object Ourselves Skills Social
Ideas shape the course of history.
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Course History Ideas Shape
The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward.
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Avoid Carry Intellectual Reward Tax
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 important thing for Government is not to do things which individuals are doing already, and to do them a little better or a little worse; but to do those things which at present are not done at all.
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Better Government Important Individual Present Worst
Long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead.
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Affair Death Guide
When somebody persuades me I am wrong, I change my mind.
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Change Mindset Myself Persuade Wrong
When I find new information I change my mind; What do you do?
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Change Finding Information Mindset
The forces of the nineteenth century have run their course and are exhausted.
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Course Exhaust Focus Run
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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Benefit Capital Division Greatness Kind Man Society War Wealth

Once we allow ourselves to be disobedient to the test of an accountant’s profit, we have begun to change our civilization.

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