When I find new information I change my mind; What do you do?
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNESThe glory of the nation you love is a desirable end, – but generally to be obtained at your neighbor’s expense.
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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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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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All production is for the purpose of ultimately satisfying a consumer.
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A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind.
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There is nothing so disastrous as a rational investment policy in an irrational world.
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Markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent.
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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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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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I do not know which makes a man more conservative – to know nothing but the present, or nothing but the past.
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By this means (fractional reserve banking) government may secretly and unobserved, confiscate the wealth of the people, and not one man in a million will detect the theft.
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There is no harm in being sometimes wrong – especially if one is promptly found out.
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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 principle objectives in life are love, the creation and enjoyment if aesthetic experience, the pursuit of knowledge. Love comes a long way first.
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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 study of economics does not seem to require any specialised gifts of an unusually high order.
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