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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

I am sure that the power of vested interests is vastly exaggerated compared with the gradual encroachment of ideas.
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Ideas Interest Myself Power
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
The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is generally understood. Indeed, the world is ruled by little else.
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Easy Economist Ideas Politics Rule World
Whenever you save five shillings you put a man out of work for a day.
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Day Save Work Yourself
Worldly wisdom teaches that it is better for reputation to fail conventionally than to succeed unconventionally.
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Convention Failure Teaching Wisdom World
If farming were to be organised like the stock market, a farmer would sell his farm in the morning when it was raining, only to buy it back in the afternoon when the sun came out.
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Change Farm Raining Season Stock Summer
It is ideas, not vested interests, which are dangerous for good or evil.
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Dangerous Evil Goodness Ideas
In truth, the gold standard is already a barbarous relic.
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Gold Standard Truth
Successful investing is anticipating the anticipations of others.
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Anticipation Investment Success
Ideas shape the course of history.
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Course History Ideas Shape
There is no harm in being sometimes wrong – especially if one is promptly found out.
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Finding Harm Oneself Wrong
Perhaps it is historically true that no order of society ever perishes save by its own hand.
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Hands History Save Society True
The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping the old ones, which ramify, for those brought up as most of us have been, into every corner of our minds.
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Difficult Escape Ideas Lying Mindset Ourselves
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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Error Excessive Ideas National Power
It would not be foolish to contemplate the possibility of a far greater progress still.
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Foolish Greatness Possible Progress
The division of the spoils between the victors will also provide employment for a powerful office, whose doorsteps the greedy adventurers and jealous concession hunters of twenty or thirty nations will crowd and defile.
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Crowd Division Employment Nation Provide Spoil

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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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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