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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

Economists must leave to Adam Smith alone the glory of the Quarto, must pluck the day, fling pamphlets into the wind, write always sub specie temporis , and achieve immortality by accident, if at all.
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Accident Achievement Economist Immortal Writing
The forces of the nineteenth century have run their course and are exhausted.
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Course Exhaust Focus Run
The numeric system was invented to help man to put order in the chaos of the world.
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Chaos Help Invention Man System World
It is better to be roughly right than precisely wrong.
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Better Choice Right Wrong
The importance of money flows from it being a link between the present and the future.
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Future Importance Money Present
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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Activity Country Development Job
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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Brave Cheerful Generation Heart Mindset Symbol Traveling
Once we allow ourselves to be disobedient to the test of an accountant’s profit, we have begun to change our civilization.
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Allow Beginning Change Civilization Disobedient Profit
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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Ideas Origin Party Politics
Successful investing is anticipating the anticipations of others.
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Anticipation Investment Success
Investment based on genuine long-term expectations is so difficult today as to be scarcely practicable.
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Difficult Expectation Investment Scarce
The right remedy for the trade cycle is not to be found in abolishing booms and thus keeping us permanently in a semi-slump; but in abolishing slumps and thus keeping us permanently in a quasi-boom.
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Cycle Finding Permanent Remedy Right Trade
I 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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Finding Hands Invisible Myself Solution Trying
If we consistently act on the optimistic hypothesis, this hypothesis will tend to be realised; whilst by acting on the pessimistic hypothesis we can keep ourselves for ever in the pit of want.
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Act Consistent Optimism Realize
The friends of gold will have to be extremely wise and moderate if they are to avoid a revolution.
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Avoid Friendship Gold Revolution Wisdom
Chess is a cure for headaches.
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Chess Game Head Pain

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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