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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.

John Maynard Keynes

Nothing mattered except states of mind, chiefly our own.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES

Chief Exception Ourselves State
The key to selecting the winner isn’t choosing the face you think is the most beautiful but rather the face other people will pick
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Face People Selection Thinking Winner
I am sure that the power of vested interests is vastly exaggerated compared with the gradual encroachment of ideas.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES

Ideas Interest Myself Power
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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Avoid Bank Blame Dangerous Himself Ruin Sound
When I find new information I change my mind; What do you do?
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Change Finding Information Mindset
Men will not always die quietly.
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Death Man Quiet
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
If human nature felt no temptation to take a chance there might not be much investment merely as a result of cold calculation.
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Calculation Human Nature Result Temptation
I believe myself to be writing a book on economic theory which will largely revolutionize – not, I suppose, at once but in the course of the next ten years – the way the world thinks about economic problems.
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Believe Economics Problem Revolution Thinking World Writing
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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Capital Investment National Production Wealth
For at least another hundred years we must pretend to ourselves and to every one that fair is foul and foul is fair; for foul is useful and fair is not. Avarice and usury and precaution must be our gods for a little longer still.
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Fair God Oneself Pretend Soul
The biggest problem is not to let people accept new ideas, but to let them forget the old ones.
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Acceptance Big Forget Ideas Old People Problem
Chess is a cure for headaches.
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Chess Game Head Pain
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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Economy Humble Level Management Splendid
The social object of skilled investment should be to defeat the dark forces of time and ignorance which envelope our future.
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Envelope Future Ignorance Object Ourselves Skills Social
Practical men who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influence, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist. Madmen in authority, who hear voices in the air, are distilling their frenzy from some academic scribbler of a few years back.
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Believe Economy Intellectual Man Myself Practice Quite Slave

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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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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