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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.

John Maynard Keynes

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The disruptive powers of excessive national fecundity may have played a greater part in bursting the bonds of convention than either the power of ideas or the errors of autocracy.
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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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But the dreams of designing diplomats do not always prosper, and we must trust the future .
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The Economic Problem, the problem of want and poverty and the economic struggle between classes and nations, is nothing but a frightful muddle, a transitory and unnecessary muddle.
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The political problem of mankind is to combine three things: economic efficiency, social justice and individual liberty.
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There is no subtler, no surer means of overturning the existing basis of society than to debauch the currency.
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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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Obstinacy can bring only a penalty and no reward.
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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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It is Enterprise which build and improves the world’s possessions. If Enterprise is afoot, Wealth accumulates whatever may be happening to Thrift; and if Enterprise is asleep, Wealth decays, whatever Thrift may be doing.
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