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?
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNESThe numeric system was invented to help man to put order in the chaos of the world.
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It economics is a method rather than a doctrine, an apparatus of the mind, a technique of thinking which helps its possessor to draw correct conclusions.
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We will not have any more crashes in our time.
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Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone.
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A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind.
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It would not be foolish to contemplate the possibility of a far greater progress still.
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Ideas, knowledge, art, hospitality, travel – these are things which should in their nature be international. But let goods be homespun whenever it is reasonably and conveniently possible and above all let finance be primarily national.
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The engine which drives enterprise is not thrift, but profit.
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The power to become habituated to his surroundings is a marked characteristic of mankind.
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All production is for the purpose of ultimately satisfying a consumer.
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By a continuing process of inflation, government can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens.
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An investor who proposes to ignore near-term market fluctuations needs greater resources for safety and must not operate on so large a scale, if at all, with borrowed money.
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There is nothing so disastrous as a rational investment policy in an irrational world.
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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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When my information changes, I alter my conclusions. What do you do, sir?
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Nothing mattered except states of mind, chiefly our own.
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