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.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNESI 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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Once doubt begins it spreads rapidly.
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The friends of gold will have to be extremely wise and moderate if they are to avoid a revolution.
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If economists could manage to get themselves thought of as humble, competent people on a level with dentists, that would be splendid.
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When the capital development of a country becomes a by-product of the activities of a casino, the job is likely to be ill-done.
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One’s knowledge and experience are definitely limited and there are seldom more than two or three enterprises at any given time in which I personally feel myself entitled to put full confidence.
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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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Should government refrain from regulation (taxation), the worthlessness of the money becomes apparent and the fraud can no longer be concealed.
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There is no subtler, no surer means of overturning the existing basis of society than to debauch the currency.
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There is no intrinsic reason for the scarcity of capital.
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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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The power to become habituated to his surroundings is a marked characteristic of mankind.
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It economics is a method rather than a doctrine, an apparatus of the mind, a technique of thinking which helps its possessor to draw correct conclusions.
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Experience shows that what happens is always the thing against which one has not made provision in advance.
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Men will not always die quietly.
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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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