All the political parties alike have their origins in past ideas and not in new ideas and none more conspicuously so than the Marxists .
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNESThe atomic hypothesis which had worked so splendidly in Physics breaks down in Psychics.
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Perhaps it is historically true that no order of society ever perishes save by its own hand.
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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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How long will it be necessary to pay City men so entirely out of proportion to what other servants of society commonly receive for performing social services not less useful or difficult?
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Successful investing is anticipating the anticipations of others.
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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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Well, when I get new information, I rethink my position. What, sir, do you do with new information?
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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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I work for a Government I despise for ends I think criminal.
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Markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent.
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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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The division of the spoils between the victors will also provide employment for a powerful office, whose doorsteps the greedy adventurers and jealous concession hunters of twenty or thirty nations will crowd and defile.
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When somebody persuades me I am wrong, I change my mind.
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I am sure that the power of vested interests is vastly exaggerated compared with the gradual encroachment of ideas.
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Thus, the weight of my criticism is directed against the inadequacy of the theoretical foundations of the laissez-faire doctrine upon which I was brought up and for many years I taught
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Logic , like lyrical poetry , is no employment for the middle-aged.
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