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For at least another hundred years we must pretend to ourselves and to every one that fair is foul and foul is fair; for foul is useful and fair is not. Avarice and usury and precaution must be our gods for a little longer still.

John Maynard Keynes

It is better that a man should tyrannize over his bank balance than over his fellow-citizens.
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Balance Bank Better Citizenship Man
Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent.
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Different Education Incompetent
All production is for the purpose of ultimately satisfying a consumer.
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Consumer Purpose Satisfaction
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
I believe that the future will learn more from the spirit of Gesell than from that of Marx .
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Believe Future Learning Myself
The boom, not the slump, is the right time for austerity at the Treasury.
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Right Time Treasure
There is no harm in being sometimes wrong – especially if one is promptly found out.
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Finding Harm Oneself Wrong
The markets are moved by animal spirits, and not by reason.
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Animal Market Move Reason Spirit
I’d rather be vaguely right than precisely wrong.
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Choice Myself Right Wrong
To suggest social action for the public good to the city London is like discussing The Origin of Species to a Bishop sixty years ago.
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Action Discussion Origin Public Social
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
When my information changes, I alter my conclusions. What do you do, sir?
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Change Conclusion Information Yourself
But my lord, when we addressed this issue a few years ago, didn’t you argue the other side?” He said, “That’s true, but when I get more evidence I sometimes change my mind. What do you do?
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Address Change Evidence Mindset
When the capital development of a country becomes a by-product of the activities of a casino, the job is likely to be ill-done.
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Activity Country Development Job
Canada is a place of infinite promise. We like the people, and if one ever had to emigrate, this would be the destination, not the U.S.A. The hills, lakes and forests make it a place of peace and repose of the mind, such as one never finds in the U.S.A.
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Destination Infinite Nature Peace Place Promise
Economics is a very dangerous science.
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Dangerous Economics Science

For at least another hundred years we must pretend to ourselves and to every one that fair is foul and foul is fair; for foul is useful and fair is not. Avarice and usury and precaution must be our gods for a little longer still.

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For at least another hundred years we must pretend to ourselves and to every one that fair is foul and foul is fair; for foul is useful and fair is not. Avarice and usury and precaution must be our gods for a little longer still.

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