If you owe your bank a hundred pounds, you have a problem. But if you owe a million, it has.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNESIf we consistently act on the optimistic hypothesis, this hypothesis will tend to be realised; whilst by acting on the pessimistic hypothesis we can keep ourselves for ever in the pit of want.
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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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Long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead.
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I work for a Government I despise for ends I think criminal.
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It economics is a method rather than a doctrine, an apparatus of the mind, a technique of thinking which helps its possessor to draw correct conclusions.
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It is a good thing to make mistakes so long as you’re found out quickly.
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The power to become habituated to his surroundings is a marked characteristic of mankind.
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All production is for the purpose of ultimately satisfying a consumer.
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Never in history was there a method devised of such efficacy for setting each country’s advantage at variance with its neighbours’ as the international gold (or, formerly, silver) standard.
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When I find new information I change my mind; What do you do?
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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.
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Everything is always decided for reasons other than the real merits of the case.
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If economists could manage to get themselves thought of as humble, competent people on a level with dentists, that would be splendid.
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Government machinery has been described as a marvelous labor saving device which enables ten men to do the work of one.
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The idea behind stamped money is sound.
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Perhaps it is historically true that no order of society ever perishes save by its own hand.
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