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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

The glory of the nation you love is a desirable end, – but generally to be obtained at your neighbor’s expense.
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Desire Glory Love Nation Yourself
The destruction of the inducement to invest by an excessive liquidity-preference was the outstanding evil, the prime impediment to the growth of wealth, in the ancient and medieval worlds.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES

Destruction Growth Investment Liquid World
Like all his type, Newton was wholly aloof from women.
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Scientist Type Woman
When I find new information I change my mind; What do you do?
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Change Finding Information Mindset
The social object of skilled investment should be to defeat the dark forces of time and ignorance which envelope our future.
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Envelope Future Ignorance Object Ourselves Skills Social
The immense accumulations of fixed capital which, to the great benefit of mankind, were built up during the half century before the war, could never have come about in a Society where wealth was divided equitably.
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Benefit Capital Division Greatness Kind Man Society War Wealth
Everything is always decided for reasons other than the real merits of the case.
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Case Decision Reality Reason
Conservatism leads nowhere; it satisfies no ideal.
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Conservatism Ideal Satisfaction
For my own part, I believe that there is social and psychological justification for significant inequalities of incomes and wealth.
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Believe Income Justification Social Wealth
The important thing for Government is not to do things which individuals are doing already, and to do them a little better or a little worse; but to do those things which at present are not done at all.
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Better Government Important Individual Present Worst
Practical men who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influence, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist. Madmen in authority, who hear voices in the air, are distilling their frenzy from some academic scribbler of a few years back.
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Believe Economy Intellectual Man Myself Practice Quite Slave
Ideas shape the course of history.
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Course History Ideas Shape
What an extraordinary episode in the economic progress of man that age was which came to an end in August, 1914!
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Age Episode Man Progress
As time goes on, I get more and more convinced that the right method of investment is to put fairly large sums into enterprises which one thinks one knows something about and in the management of which one thoroughly believes.
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Believe Fair Investment Management Myself Right Time
There is no subtler, no surer means of overturning the existing basis of society than to debauch the currency.
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Currency Existence Subtle Sure
Investment based on genuine long-term expectations is so difficult today as to be scarcely practicable.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES

Difficult Expectation Investment Scarce

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