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Government machinery has been described as a marvelous labor saving device which enables ten men to do the work of one.

John Maynard Keynes

Economics is a very dangerous science.
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Dangerous Economics Science
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
I was suffering from my chronic delusion that one good share is safer than ten bad ones, and I am always forgetting that hardly anyone else shares this particular delusion.
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Delusion Forget Goodness Suffering
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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Conclusion Drawing Economics Mindset Technique
There is nothing so disastrous as a rational investment policy in an irrational world.
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Disaster Investment Rational World
The atomic hypothesis which had worked so splendidly in Physics breaks down in Psychics.
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Break Physics Splendid Work
The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward.
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Avoid Carry Intellectual Reward Tax
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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Crowd Division Employment Nation Provide Spoil
It is ideas, not vested interests, which are dangerous for good or evil.
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Dangerous Evil Goodness Ideas
Practical men who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influence, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist. Madmen in authority, who hear voices in the air, are distilling their frenzy from some academic scribbler of a few years back.
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Believe Economy Intellectual Man Myself Practice Quite Slave
It’s not bringing in the new ideas that’s so hard; it’s getting rid of the old ones.
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Hard Ideas Old Oneself
Once doubt begins it spreads rapidly.
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Beginning Doubt Fast Spread
Never in history was there a method devised of such efficacy for setting each country’s advantage at variance with its neighbours’ as the international gold (or, formerly, silver) standard.
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Gold History International Method Standard
The biggest problem is not to let people accept new ideas, but to let them forget the old ones.
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Acceptance Big Forget Ideas Old People Problem
The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping from the old ones.
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Deep Difficult Effort Escape Ideas Inspirational Lying Old
The power to become habituated to his surroundings and therefore to no longer be grateful for what is good in it is a marked characteristic of mankind and needs to be fought against if a person is to be happy.
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Goodness Gratitude Habitat Happiness Person Power Surrounding

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