If you owe your bank a hundred pounds, you have a problem. But if you owe a million, it has.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNESThere is no subtler, no surer means of overturning the existing basis of society than to debauch the currency.
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The atomic hypothesis which had worked so splendidly in Physics breaks down in Psychics.
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Chess is a cure for headaches.
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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.
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I believe that the future will learn more from the spirit of Gesell than from that of Marx .
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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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It is a mistake to think that one limits one’s risk by spreading too much between enterprises about which one knows little and has no reason for special confidence.
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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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It is better that a man should tyrannize over his bank balance than over his fellow-citizens.
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In truth, the gold standard is already a barbarous relic.
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The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping from the old ones.
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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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When I find new information I change my mind; What do you do?
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The love of money as a possession. Will be recognised for what it is, a somewhat disgusting morbidity.
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When the final result is expected to be a compromise, it is often prudent to start from an extreme position.
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For my own part, I believe that there is social and psychological justification for significant inequalities of incomes and wealth.
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