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Economists must leave to Adam Smith alone the glory of the Quarto, must pluck the day, fling pamphlets into the wind, write always sub specie temporis , and achieve immortality by accident, if at all.

John Maynard Keynes

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Men will not always die quietly.
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Death Man Quiet
The businessman is only tolerable so long as his gains can be held to bear some relation to what, roughly and in some sense, his activities have contributed to society.
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Business Contribute Himself Man Society Tolerance
It is the duty of the long-term investor to endure great losses with equanimity.
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Greatness Investment Loss Responsibility
I am sure that the power of vested interests is vastly exaggerated compared with the gradual encroachment of ideas.
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Ideas Interest Myself Power
When the accumulation of wealth is no longer of high social importance, there will be great changes in the code of morals.
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Change Code Greatness Importance Moral Social Wealth
When the facts change, I change my mind.
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Change Fact Inspirational Mindset Myself Open
I work for a Government I despise for ends I think criminal.
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Crime End Government Myself Work
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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Delusion Forget Goodness Suffering
Conservatism leads nowhere; it satisfies no ideal.
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Conservatism Ideal Satisfaction
I’d rather be vaguely right than precisely wrong.
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Choice Myself Right Wrong
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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Capital Investment National Production Wealth
I believe myself to be writing a book on economic theory which will largely revolutionize – not, I suppose, at once but in the course of the next ten years – the way the world thinks about economic problems.
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Believe Economics Problem Revolution Thinking World Writing
The friends of gold will have to be extremely wise and moderate if they are to avoid a revolution.
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Avoid Friendship Gold Revolution Wisdom
Ideas, knowledge, art, hospitality, travel – these are things which should in their nature be international. But let goods be homespun whenever it is reasonably and conveniently possible and above all let finance be primarily national.
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Art Finance Hospitality Ideas International Knowledge National Possible
Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent.
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Different Education Incompetent
Most men love money and security more, and creation and construction less, as they get older.
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Construction Love Man Money Old Security

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