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A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind.

John Maynard Keynes

The boom, not the slump, is the right time for austerity at the Treasury.
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Right Time Treasure
Chess is a cure for headaches.
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Chess Game Head Pain
Economics is a very dangerous science.
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Dangerous Economics Science
A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES

History Mindset Opinion Study
The day is not far off when the economic problem will take the back seat where it belongs, and the arena of the heart and the head will be occupied or reoccupied, by our real problems – the problems of life and of human relations, of creation and behavior and religion.
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Behavior Creation Economics Head Heart Problem Religion
All the political parties alike have their origins in past ideas and not in new ideas and none more conspicuously so than the Marxists .
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Ideas Origin Party Politics
A sound banker, alas, is not one who foresees danger and avoids it, but one who, when he is ruined, is ruined in a conventional way along with his fellows, so that no one can really blame him.
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Avoid Bank Blame Dangerous Himself Ruin Sound
Conservatism leads nowhere; it satisfies no ideal.
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Conservatism Ideal Satisfaction
It is the duty of the long-term investor to endure great losses with equanimity.
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Greatness Investment Loss Responsibility
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
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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Economy Humble Level Management Splendid
Experience shows that what happens is always the thing against which one has not made provision in advance.
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Advance Experience Provision
By a continuing process of inflation, government can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens.
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Citizenship Important Inflation Process Secret
The numeric system was invented to help man to put order in the chaos of the world.
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Chaos Help Invention Man System World
I conceive, therefore, that a somewhat comprehensive socialisation of investment will prove the means of securing an approximation to full employment.
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Employment Evidence Investment Myself Social
There is nothing so disastrous as a rational investment policy in an irrational world.
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Disaster Investment Rational World

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