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All the political parties alike have their origins in past ideas and not in new ideas and none more conspicuously so than the Marxists .

John Maynard Keynes

Thus, the weight of my criticism is directed against the inadequacy of the theoretical foundations of the laissez-faire doctrine upon which I was brought up and for many years I taught
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Criticism Foundation Inadequate Weight
It is a good thing to make mistakes so long as you’re found out quickly.
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Finding Goodness Mistake Quick Yourself
The important thing for Government is not to do things which individuals are doing already, and to do them a little better or a little worse; but to do those things which at present are not done at all.
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Better Government Important Individual Present Worst
The forces of the nineteenth century have run their course and are exhausted.
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Course Exhaust Focus Run
The study of economics does not seem to require any specialised gifts of an unusually high order.
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Economics Gift Order Special Study
There is nothing so disastrous as a rational investment policy in an irrational world.
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Disaster Investment Rational World
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
The decadent international but individualistic capitalism in the hands of which we found ourselves after the war is not a success. It is not intelligent. It is not beautiful. It is not just. It is not virtuous. And it doesn’t deliver the goods.
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Capital Deliver Goodness International Success Virtue War
I find myself more and more relying for a solution of our problems on the invisible hand which I tried to eject from economic thinking twenty years ago.
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Finding Hands Invisible Myself Solution Trying
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
It is the long-term investor, who will in practice come in for the most criticism… For it is the essence of his behavior that he should be eccentric, unconventional, and rash in the eyes of average opinion.
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Essence Investor Opinion Practice Willing
The glory of the nation you love is a desirable end, – but generally to be obtained at your neighbor’s expense.
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Desire Glory Love Nation Yourself
Ideas shape the course of history.
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Course History Ideas Shape
Government machinery has been described as a marvelous labor saving device which enables ten men to do the work of one.
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Description Government Machine Oneself Work
Nor should the argument seem strange that taxation may be so high as to defeat its object, and that, given sufficient time to gather the fruits, a reduction of taxation will run a better chance than an increase of balancing the budget.
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Argument Balance Budget Defeat Fruit Object Strange
I work for a Government I despise for ends I think criminal.
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Crime End Government Myself Work

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