Experience shows that what happens is always the thing against which one has not made provision in advance.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNESThe atomic hypothesis which had worked so splendidly in Physics breaks down in Psychics.
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When the accumulation of wealth is no longer of high social importance, there will be great changes in the code of morals.
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Like all his type, Newton was wholly aloof from women.
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For my own part, I believe that there is social and psychological justification for significant inequalities of incomes and wealth.
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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 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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All production is for the purpose of ultimately satisfying a consumer.
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Once doubt begins it spreads rapidly.
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Everything is always decided for reasons other than the real merits of the case.
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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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The introduction of a substantial Government transfer tax on all transactions might prove the most serviceable reform available,with a view to mitigating the predominance of speculation in the United States.
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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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Conservatism leads nowhere; it satisfies no ideal.
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The boom, not the slump, is the right time for austerity at the Treasury.
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Gold is a relic from a time when government’s were less trustworthy in these matters (currency debasement) than they are now.
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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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