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

John Maynard Keynes

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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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Hands History Save Society True
Government machinery has been described as a marvelous labor saving device which enables ten men to do the work of one.
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Description Government Machine Oneself Work
I work for a Government I despise for ends I think criminal.
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Crime End Government Myself Work
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 immense accumulations of fixed capital which, to the great benefit of mankind, were built up during the half century before the war, could never have come about in a Society where wealth was divided equitably.
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Benefit Capital Division Greatness Kind Man Society War Wealth
Nothing mattered except states of mind, chiefly our own.
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Chief Exception Ourselves State
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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Address Change Evidence Mindset
The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward.
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Avoid Carry Intellectual Reward Tax
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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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
The biggest problem is not to let people accept new ideas, but to let them forget the old ones.
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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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Ideas shape the course of history.
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Course History Ideas Shape
Logic , like lyrical poetry , is no employment for the middle-aged.
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The boom, not the slump, is the right time for austerity at the Treasury.
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Right Time Treasure
I’d rather be vaguely right than precisely wrong.
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Choice Myself Right Wrong

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