Men will not always die quietly.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNESI work for a Government I despise for ends I think criminal.
More John Maynard Keynes Quotes
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It is investment, i.e. the increased production of material wealth in the shape of capital goods, which alone increases national wealth.
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Canada is a place of infinite promise. We like the people, and if one ever had to emigrate, this would be the destination, not the U.S.A. The hills, lakes and forests make it a place of peace and repose of the mind, such as one never finds in the U.S.A.
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A sound banker, alas, is not one who foresees danger and avoids it, but one who, when he is ruined, is ruined in a conventional way along with his fellows, so that no one can really blame him.
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The considerations upon which expectations of prospective yields are based are partly existing facts which we can assume to be known more or less for certain, and partly future events which can only be forecasted with more or less confidence.
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There is no harm in being sometimes wrong – especially if one is promptly found out.
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The atomic hypothesis which had worked so splendidly in Physics breaks down in Psychics.
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It is ideas, not vested interests, which are dangerous for good or evil.
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Worldly wisdom teaches that it is better for reputation to fail conventionally than to succeed unconventionally.
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To suggest social action for the public good to the city London is like discussing The Origin of Species to a Bishop sixty years ago.
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The destruction of the inducement to invest by an excessive liquidity-preference was the outstanding evil, the prime impediment to the growth of wealth, in the ancient and medieval worlds.
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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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The power to become habituated to his surroundings and therefore to no longer be grateful for what is good in it is a marked characteristic of mankind and needs to be fought against if a person is to be happy.
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To our generation Einstein has been made to become a double symbol – a symbol of the mind travelling in the cold regions of space, and a symbol of the brave and generous outcast, pure in heart and cheerful of spirit.
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Long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead.
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A speculator is one who runs risks of which he is aware and an investor is one who runs risks of which he is unaware.
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