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When the final result is expected to be a compromise, it is often prudent to start from an extreme position.

John Maynard Keynes

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But whilst there may be intrinsic reasons for the scarcity of land, there are no intrinsic reasons for the scarcity of capital.
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The boom, not the slump, is the right time for austerity at the Treasury.
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I do not know which makes a man more conservative – to know nothing but the present, or nothing but the past.
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The idea behind stamped money is sound.
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It is a good thing to make mistakes so long as you’re found out quickly.
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It is the long-term investor, who will in practice come in for the most criticism… For it is the essence of his behavior that he should be eccentric, unconventional, and rash in the eyes of average opinion.
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We will not have any more crashes in our time.
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Once doubt begins it spreads rapidly.
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How long will it be necessary to pay City men so entirely out of proportion to what other servants of society commonly receive for performing social services not less useful or difficult?
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I find myself more and more relying for a solution of our problems on the invisible hand which I tried to eject from economic thinking twenty years ago.
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