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Logic , like lyrical poetry , is no employment for the middle-aged.

John Maynard Keynes

This long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead. Economists set themselves too easy, too useless a task if in tempestuous seasons they can only tell us that when the storm is long past the ocean is flat again.
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Affair Current Death Guide Ocean Past Run Storm
I believe myself to be writing a book on economic theory which will largely revolutionize – not, I suppose, at once but in the course of the next ten years – the way the world thinks about economic problems.
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Believe Economics Problem Revolution Thinking World Writing
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
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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Currency Gold Government Time Trust
Most men love money and security more, and creation and construction less, as they get older.
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Construction Love Man Money Old Security
Conservatism leads nowhere; it satisfies no ideal.
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Conservatism Ideal Satisfaction
I’d rather be vaguely right than precisely wrong.
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Choice Myself Right Wrong
The boom, not the slump, is the right time for austerity at the Treasury.
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Right Time Treasure
Investment based on genuine long-term expectations is so difficult today as to be scarcely practicable.
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Difficult Expectation Investment Scarce
It is generally agreed that casinos should, in the public interest, be inaccessible and expensive. And perhaps the same is true of Stock Exchanges.
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Expensive Interest Public Stock Market
It would not be foolish to contemplate the possibility of a far greater progress still.
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Foolish Greatness Possible Progress
There is no subtler, no surer means of overturning the existing basis of society than to debauch the currency.
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Currency Existence Subtle Sure
I think that Capitalism, wisely managed, can probably be made more efficient for attaining economic ends than any alternative system yet in sight, but that in itself is in many ways extremely objectionable.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES

Capitalism Economy Extreme Manage Object Thinking Wisdom
When I find new information I change my mind; What do you do?
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Change Finding Information Mindset
Obstinacy can bring only a penalty and no reward.
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Obstinate Penalty Reward
Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone.
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Belief Capital Goodness Greatness Man Wicket

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