The social object of skilled investment should be to defeat the dark forces of time and ignorance which envelope our future.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNESThe right remedy for the trade cycle is not to be found in abolishing booms and thus keeping us permanently in a semi-slump; but in abolishing slumps and thus keeping us permanently in a quasi-boom.
More John Maynard Keynes Quotes
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The principle objectives in life are love, the creation and enjoyment if aesthetic experience, the pursuit of knowledge. Love comes a long way first.
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Whenever you save five shillings you put a man out of work for a day.
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The importance of money flows from it being a link between the present and the future.
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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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This long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead. Economists set themselves too easy, too useless a task if in tempestuous seasons they can only tell us that when the storm is long past the ocean is flat again.
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Nothing mattered except states of mind, chiefly our own.
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The biggest problem is not to let people accept new ideas, but to let them forget the old ones.
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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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Should government refrain from regulation (taxation), the worthlessness of the money becomes apparent and the fraud can no longer be concealed.
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Once doubt begins it spreads rapidly.
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It would be foolish, in forming our expectations, to attach great weight to matters which are very uncertain.
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The power to become habituated to his surroundings and therefore to no longer be grateful for what is good in it is a marked characteristic of mankind and needs to be fought against if a person is to be happy.
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The power to become habituated to his surroundings is a marked characteristic of mankind.
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When the facts change, I change my mind.
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Dangerous acts can be done safely in a community which thinks and feels rightly, which would be the way to hell if they were executed by those who think and feel wrongly.
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