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Conservatism leads nowhere; it satisfies no ideal.

John Maynard Keynes

I know of only three people who really understand money. A professor at another university. One of my students. And a rather junior clerk at the Bank of England.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES

Bank Known Myself People Understand University
If 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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Act Consistent Optimism Realize
In truth, the gold standard is already a barbarous relic.
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Gold Standard Truth
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
The love of money as a possession. Will be recognised for what it is, a somewhat disgusting morbidity.
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Disgusting Love Money Possession Recognition
When somebody persuades me I am wrong, I change my mind.
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Change Mindset Myself Persuade Wrong
A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind.
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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
The atomic hypothesis which had worked so splendidly in Physics breaks down in Psychics.
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Break Physics Splendid Work
It is better to be roughly right than precisely wrong.
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Better Choice Right Wrong
Americans are apt to be unduly interested in discovering what average opinion believes average opinion to be.
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Average Believe Discover Interest Opinion
Morally and philosophically I find myself in agreement with virtually the whole of it: and not only in agreement with it, but in deeply moved agreement.
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Agreement Move Philosophy Virtual
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 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
It is ideas, not vested interests, which are dangerous for good or evil.
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Dangerous Evil Goodness Ideas
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

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