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When I find new information I change my mind; What do you do?

John Maynard Keynes

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If you owe your bank a hundred pounds, you have a problem. But if you owe a million, it has.
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Bank Problem Wealth Yourself
In truth, the gold standard is already a barbarous relic.
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Gold Standard Truth
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
When my information changes, I alter my conclusions. What do you do, sir?
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Change Conclusion Information Yourself
There is nothing so disastrous as a rational investment policy in an irrational world.
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Disaster Investment Rational World
The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward.
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Avoid Carry Intellectual Reward Tax
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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Advantage Greatness Impression Scarce Social Stock
Men will not always die quietly.
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Death Man Quiet
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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Allow Beginning Change Civilization Disobedient Profit
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
The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping the old ones, which ramify, for those brought up as most of us have been, into every corner of our minds.
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Difficult Escape Ideas Lying Mindset Ourselves
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
Ideas shape the course of history.
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Course History Ideas Shape
Nothing mattered except states of mind, chiefly our own.
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Chief Exception Ourselves State
Capitalism is the extraordinary belief that the nastiest of men, for the nastiest of reasons, will somehow work for the benefit of us all.
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Belief Benefit Capital Man Nasty Reason Work
There is no subtler, no surer means of overturning the existing basis of society than to debauch the currency.
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Currency Existence Subtle Sure

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