Ideas shape the course of history.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNESThe 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.
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The introduction of a substantial Government transfer tax on all transactions might prove the most serviceable reform available,with a view to mitigating the predominance of speculation in the United States.
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Men will not always die quietly.
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In truth, the gold standard is already a barbarous relic.
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Chess is a cure for headaches.
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I know of only three people who really understand money. A professor at another university. One of my students. And a rather junior clerk at the Bank of England.
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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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Once doubt begins it spreads rapidly.
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If you owe your bank a hundred pounds, you have a problem. But if you owe a million, it has.
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The study of economics does not seem to require any specialised gifts of an unusually high order.
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The engine which drives enterprise is not thrift, but profit.
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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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The numeric system was invented to help man to put order in the chaos of the world.
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Economics is a very dangerous science.
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Investment based on genuine long-term expectations is so difficult today as to be scarcely practicable.
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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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