Logic , like lyrical poetry , is no employment for the middle-aged.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNESIt is Enterprise which build and improves the world’s possessions. If Enterprise is afoot, Wealth accumulates whatever may be happening to Thrift; and if Enterprise is asleep, Wealth decays, whatever Thrift may be doing.
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What an extraordinary episode in the economic progress of man that age was which came to an end in August, 1914!
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But my lord, when we addressed this issue a few years ago, didn’t you argue the other side?” He said, “That’s true, but when I get more evidence I sometimes change my mind. What do you do?
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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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The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping the old ones, which ramify, for those brought up as most of us have been, into every corner of our minds.
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Markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent.
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When my information changes, I alter my conclusions. What do you do, sir?
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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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Well, when I get new information, I rethink my position. What, sir, do you do with new information?
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It is Enterprise which build and improves the world’s possessions. If Enterprise is afoot, Wealth accumulates whatever may be happening to Thrift; and if Enterprise is asleep, Wealth decays, whatever Thrift may be doing.
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The idea behind stamped money is sound.
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The political problem of mankind is to combine three things: economic efficiency, social justice and individual liberty.
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The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping from 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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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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The duty of “saving” became nine-tenths of virtue and the growth of the cake the object of true religion.
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