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The 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.

John Maynard Keynes

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 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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Experience Knowledge Life Love Objective Principle
Whenever you save five shillings you put a man out of work for a day.
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Day Save Work Yourself
The importance of money flows from it being a link between the present and the future.
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Future Importance Money Present
Perhaps it is historically true that no order of society ever perishes save by its own hand.
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Hands History Save Society True
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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Affair Current Death Guide Ocean Past Run Storm
Nothing mattered except states of mind, chiefly our own.
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Chief Exception Ourselves State
The biggest problem is not to let people accept new ideas, but to let them forget the old ones.
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Acceptance Big Forget Ideas Old People Problem
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
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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Government Hide Mistake Money
Once doubt begins it spreads rapidly.
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Beginning Doubt Fast Spread
It would be foolish, in forming our expectations, to attach great weight to matters which are very uncertain.
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Attachment Certain Expectation Fools
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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Goodness Gratitude Habitat Happiness Person Power Surrounding
The power to become habituated to his surroundings is a marked characteristic of mankind.
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Character Habitat Kind Man Power Surround
When the facts change, I change my mind.
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Change Fact Inspirational Mindset Myself Open
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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Act Dangerous Feeling Hell Thinking Wrong

The 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.

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The 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.

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